Re:Does computing make the world better?
by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday June 21, 2020 @08:15PM
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> like any means of production
I don’t think this is necessarily the case.
It’s not the means of production in and of themselves that are the issue.
It’s the historio-socio-cultural-political framework, or zeitgeist, within which we find ourselves, and the decision we make, continue to make, and tolerate.
A lack of leadership in any real sense of the word.
There is, as you say, a mutual recursion, but the tools are only doing what we’re making them do, and in that sense they are amplifying our poor choices.
Blaming the tools seeks to externalise responsibility.
I don’t think this is necessarily the case.
It’s not the means of production in and of themselves that are the issue.
It’s the historio-socio-cultural-political framework, or zeitgeist, within which we find ourselves, and the decision we make, continue to make, and tolerate.
A lack of leadership in any real sense of the word.
There is, as you say, a mutual recursion, but the tools are only doing what we’re making them do, and in that sense they are amplifying our poor choices.
Blaming the tools seeks to externalise responsibility.