alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure that's the /internet/'s fault, but the humanities inability to anticipate what we can do with the technology and our inability to regulate the technology to prevent harms.
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georgemcbay • yesterday at 10:24 PM
> humanities inability to anticipate what we can do with the technology
I think it is more a problem of not caring (especially when not caring will result in social and/or economic reward) rather than not anticipating.
For any technology that is created you can and should anticipate that it will be, literally, weaponized since there are hundreds of thousands of years of precedent for this happening.
We - technologists - mocked the humanities for decades for being useless. Now look where we got without them.