@sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club
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2026-05-11 14:32 UTC
@eswag@dju.social @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com I agree that it’s a good comparison in that we should be highly skeptical. The Industrial Revolution has wrought numerous harms on human beings, possibly including our eventual extinction. If this really is a revolution on the same scale (which I doubt), maybe this time we should give some thought to the harms and risks before reshaping everything around it.
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@eswag@dju.social 2026-05-11 16:01
@sabrina@fedi01.unicornsparkle.club @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com We tried that last time. The Luddites have a very bad press because the industrialists controlled most of the presses. Not to say the Luddites were universally good foresighted people, but as far as I can tell (which is an amateurish mishmash of tidbits from mostly forgotten sources, treat with skepticism), they also weren't mindless technophobes either. They had, to use a dreadful contemporary phrase, "legitimate concerns".