Global warming and other crises have caused many scientists and policy wonks to conclude that the only escape from the destructive effects of technological autonomy is more technology.
great read. great food for thought."as citizens of a technological society we go about our daily business placing a significant degree of faith in the technological devices and systems we use. Faith is necessary because most of us don’t have the slightest idea how those devices and systems actually work, and we certainly wouldn’t know how to repair them if they fail."
I think that what's interesting about the whole climate change mess isn't that there are people who insist that the climate really isn't changing, or that if it is it couldn't possibly have anything to do with us, it's that among the people who can see the climate is changing and infer that it probably has a lot to do with burning fossil fuels, their only response is to burn even more fossil fuels. I think we're more slaves to our technologies than vice versa.