Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000)

Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by tpeo on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:13AM (#15146067)

I think that Kaczynski's concerns over technology are different from those raised by your teacher. The issue isn't so much that technology can be put to bad uses, but that it changes how people engage with the world.

Analogical example: people might lie over the internet, but whether the internet has made relationships shallower is a different issue.

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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by wybiral on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:18AM (#15146084)

The world isn't static though. Evolution and environmental changes over time will cause people to change how they engage with the changing world.

This has happened long before human technology.

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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by tpeo on Friday September 01, 2017 @12:28AM (#15146119)

So? His issue was with technologically induced behavioral change, not evolutionarily or environmentally induced behavioral change.

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Re:Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber (2000) by sooheon on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:28AM (#15146348)

Scale and velocity can create entirely different qualities. Change has always been with us, just not quite like this.

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