rhetoric?
also, do the people always worried about the future/technology sound a lot like proper link to wiki?
I am never sure why this label is supposed to be an insult.
Because I don't want to live in a world where nothing progressed beyond 1815 and everyone dies of the flu when they're like 10.
Technology is good.
The Luddites were wrong 200 years ago, but it doesn't mean that the idea is wrong in every time period. In a world where social media and clickbait are engineered to addict us and the tech manufacturers are focused on churning out endless little status symbols that otherwise don't merit their price tag, it is easy to see why someone would become skeptical of technology and where it is leading us.