It’s a tough one, this. I love technology and I have a lasting belief that it has brought us a lot of good… but a nasty feeling that we are touching some of its ‘dark edges’; brought on, not because of the technology, itself, but because of the motive for profit and dominance inherent in the power that a few mega-companies wield.
Such companies are ‘enablers’. The real threat is the big money that has seen the potential for manipulation – global manipulation.
It was a 19th century historian and Cambridge professor, John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, who said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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I have a post that is so much like this scheduled for tomorrow or the next day (I forget) … The problem is not technology. Technology just is, like air or earth or the stones in the woods. it’s what we do with it that changes it from something essentially inert to something else that tries to steal our souls.
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I agree with you, Marilyn.. humankind is the fly in the ointment.
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