@bbowman I really enjoyed Technopoly when I read it a few years ago, and enjoyed your quotes and comments popping up in my timeline
@bbowman If you have read Alan Jacobs’ piece on The Standard Critique of Technology, I think you’d appreciate it. Especially fresh off some vintage Postman 🤓. Fifteen years ago, Postman floated across the radar (my dad and other elders at his church were all reading his 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death), and after reading him, it’s impossible not to think, “So, no one listened?!”
@tinyroofnail helpful - thanks for sharing! I agree with Alan that the SCT is largely persuasive and yet has had almost no impact. His essay offers what SCT writers often omit: a creative (potential) pathway out of the Technopoly. Would love to hear more in this vein...