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As more and more people become disillusioned with social media, a new breed of grifter blaming old human follies on technology is trying to cash in on their misery.
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Millennials are suffering from what’s been called “the sex recession,” and a number of researchers and pundits have been blaming technology. They might not be completely off base for a change...
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Kissinger’s concerns about machines displacing human curiosity and turning our brains into useless, gray jelly unsuccessfully mine the same territory as many other technophobes with roughly the same results.
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Neither Ray Kurzweil or Jaron Lanier seem to lack imagination as to what jobs computers could do. So why are they so uncreative when it comes to coming up with ideas for humans working alongside AI?
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Tech skeptic Evgeny Morozov doesn't seem to think smartphone app users have any agency or free will.
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Susan Greenfield is trying to sell normal changes in human brains in response to stimuli as brainwashing by technology and received an appropriate reply.
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Technophobes are confusing normal neuroplasticity and poor impulse control for black technological magic.
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Ted Kaczynski's technophobic manifesto lives on and its ideas found an appreciative audience.
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According to Jonathan Franzen, books are vital to the continuation of civilization, just as long as they're not in digital form because e-books will destroy the sum total of knowledge.
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Panic about social media ruining kids' minds is just another in a long line of panics created by older generations intimidated by new technology.