Kevin Kelly on Reasons to Diminish Technology

Kevin Kelly has a new post in which he attempts to summarize the views of everyone who opposes technology. Excerpt:

I believe we have a moral obligation to increase the power and presence of technology in the world, but not everyone believes that – to put it mildly. Many believe the opposite: that we have a moral obligation to reduce the power and presence of technology. I want to fully understand those arguments so I am collecting them in order to confront them as well as I can. I am interested in valid reasons to diminish technology, but also in mythical reasons as well. Things people believe about the technium which may not be true, but motivate them. Here is my first cut. Please comment on alternative reasons I missed.

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...