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Originally Posted by cabasse
wack. i'm curious if you really think all tech is bad, or if you're just calling out specific areas. you're posting this on the internet... almost every aspect of your porsche relies on software running on multiple computer modules networked together, not to mention all of the CAD and other scientific modeling software used to design and optimize it... the medical industry relies heavily on tech for all kinds of shit - folding@home/supercomputers modeling proteins and AWS for running algorithms for sequencing mRNA |
Interestingly, many have argued that tech has taken the “soul” out of sports cars. It’s a compelling case.
Look, I never said that tech is “bad”. I am not the ultimate judge of “good” or “bad”
I’m arguing, along with many others, that tech takes the “soul” out of everything it enters.
And I believe that point to be correct. You can go back centuries on this. The Amish eschew most technology that takes away a person’s dignity; dignity being defined as doing a good day’s work.
Some of you will surely scoff at that, but I can sort of understand that frame of mind. Making things easier is not always better for the flesh and blood beings that we are. That doesn’t always enhance or nourish our soul.