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Is technology the doom of civilization?

http://euraeka.com/articles/7916846-What-Tech-Wants

by haidut • 16 years ago

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bediger• 16 years ago

This seems like a silly article to me, in that the author (and his subject, Kevin Kelly) assumes we all have a very similar definition of the concept "technology".

The article doesn't make sense for some sets of technology, for example, the pre-European-contact Polynesian's biological and superstition-based technology set. Those Polynesians had a technology based on plants, animals and biological raw materials and skills in manipulating them. They didn't have metals, metalworking or even fired-clay-pottery, but they managed to find and colonize virtually all habitable Pacific islands. Would taking up that set of technologies put us on some kind of irresistable train ride to ruination?

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