Re:Intel and the $1.5trn chip industry meltdown
by nonrandomstring on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:00PM
(#33253029)
> People have been saying this about technology for as long as technology has
existed.
Have they? It kinda sounds "truthy" but if ever there was an
unfalsifiable claim that's gotta be a contender.
I'm no general historian but think for the most-part people have
enthused over and coveted technologies for thousands of years.
With the exception of occasional religious objections to "magic" it
was the Luddites during the industrial revolution whose first
stirrings of discontent emerged.
Even the early critical science-fiction of H.G Wells and Mary Shelley
was tepid and poetic.
Much later, in the late 1960s, comes the first modern tech-critique,
and much of that is driven by affairs relating to environmental and
war problems, Vietnam, oil crisis, DDT... way before the Internet.
The idea that we have a surfeit of technological capability, or perhaps
just too much of the wrong type, seems very contemporary to me.
Have they? It kinda sounds "truthy" but if ever there was an unfalsifiable claim that's gotta be a contender.
I'm no general historian but think for the most-part people have enthused over and coveted technologies for thousands of years.
With the exception of occasional religious objections to "magic" it was the Luddites during the industrial revolution whose first stirrings of discontent emerged.
Even the early critical science-fiction of H.G Wells and Mary Shelley was tepid and poetic.
Much later, in the late 1960s, comes the first modern tech-critique, and much of that is driven by affairs relating to environmental and war problems, Vietnam, oil crisis, DDT... way before the Internet.
The idea that we have a surfeit of technological capability, or perhaps just too much of the wrong type, seems very contemporary to me.