Kevin Kelly has a new post in which he attempts to summarize the views of everyone who opposes technology. Excerpt:
I think there are four basic arguments against technology, with many sub reasons. In summary: Technology should be reduced as much as possible because it is contrary to nature, and/or to humanity, and/or to technology itself and finally, because it is a type of evil and thus is contrary to God.
[Followed by description of each of the four arguments.]
Link: The Technium: Reasons to Diminish Technology.
I left this comment:
By asking only about people who are morally opposed to technology, you exclude many important and more pragmatic critics of technology.
That said, I'll suggest a couple more, but I'll call these reasons to question technology rather than oppose it:
Contrary to productivity: adding technology is often a disruption or counter-productive to work.
Contrary to awareness: technology distracts us from living.
Addendum: Irony! It took me several tries to actually post that comment because of a buggy "captcha" system. Either that or I'm losing my mind (or am non-human) and am not reading this captcha correctly...
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