@alineblankertz@indieweb.social
Post #1384094
2026-04-18 09:26 UTC
Inevitability is a lie: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-brief-history-of-techno-negativity
"We hear, again and again, from the mouths of Big Tech CEOs, AI grifters, national governments, and greedy employers around much of the world. “Whether you like it or not, it’s coming,” they tell us. “There’s no point in resisting.”
The problem: the inevitability narrative is a fantasy. It relies on a logical fallacy; just because something is emerging does not mean it will stay. More than that, it is historically incorrect.
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@alineblankertz@indieweb.social 2026-04-18 09:28
Technological advancement has never been a linear process. There is no clean wave; there are messy currents, vortexes, tides, rocks. When we pay close attention, what we find is that rather than a smooth, natural progression, the history of technology is in fact a political battlefield, with numerous actors fighting over the paths of technological innovation. Recognizing this allows us to free ourselves from the idea that the [tech] world we find ourselves in is somehow an immovable fact." (2/2)
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@oausi@norden.social 2026-04-19 08:52
@alineblankertz@indieweb.social I'm not sure if the militant resistance against computer companies in the early 1980s is the best example of how technologies can be avoided.