There are always good reasons to resist or curtail technology. Although its history is one of enabling people to do more, increasing capabilities, driving improvements in well-being, it’s not a one-sided story: Technology creates more lethal and destructive weapons as well as better tools. It produces losers, eliminates some jobs and ways of life, and creates harm up to the planetary, existential scale of climate change. New technologies can be unsettling and destabilizing, alien and invasive. Technology causes problems, and always has. And yet none of that seems to matter. It might take time,
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The Gravity of Utility: Why Useful Tech Prevails
