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Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by pyrale on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:47PM (#36820339)
> tech is like humanity's one hope.

It's funny, because despite constant warfare, plagues, nasty ideologies, etc. the last time at which mankind was basically guaranteed to endure was before the industrial use of tech. Since then we've had world wars, the atomic bomb and its scare, global warming, accelerated biodiversity collapse, and it seems we can't pass a new day without discovering a new things which we rely on that is endangered.

Sure, I'm having lots of fun with tech, and I hope we can leverage it reasonably to improve our condition, but this technological religion that puts tech on a pedestal above critics really causes more harm than good. Many other technological advances that came before have required heavy regulation, and from the point of view of users, that evolution has been a progress rather than a regression.

Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by SoftTalker on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:19PM (#36820713)
Mankind will endure. Maybe in fewer numbers than today, but it's hard to imagine anything that would completely wipe out the human species worldwide, even if things collapse back to hunter-gatherer survival.
Re:Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco by lclarkmichalek on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:30PM (#36820826)
Bronze age collapse wasn't exactly great though.