alt Hacker News> If you judge on aggregate then "Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive" is nonsense.
It's not nonsense. If you think so, provide one great technology that has been a net negative.
> If you judge on aggregate then "Every great technology developed to date has been a net positive" is nonsense.
It's not nonsense. If you think so, provide one great technology that has been a net negative.
That's quite easy.
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Some of these are not great technologies, you might say. Well if they're impactful enough to turn everyone I love into a phone zombie and make the political landscape violent and insane then that's enough.