Friday, January 3, 2014

Have we all drunk the internet koolaide?

Arthur C. Clarke at his home in Colombo, Sri L...
Arthur C. Clarke at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 28 March 2005. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This guy says digital tech is bad news:
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/evgeny_vs_the_internet.php?page=all
I'm personally convinced computers and digital tech are destroying many more jobs than they are creating.  But we continue to snort the high tech coke anyway. 

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."---
Arthur C. Clarke

And we are under the magic's spell.



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