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+1 funny? (Score:5, Insightful)
by Shihar (153932) on Thursday May 26, @10:21PM (#12651133)

“Please. You can’t fix social problems with technological solutions.”

Are you joking? I don’t even know where to start. Let’s start with this. You are at a computer somewhere in the world. If semiconductors were to vanish tomorrow, wherever you are, your government would collapse, the balance of power in the world would be thoroughly shaken from head to foot, and millions, if not billions of people would die within a year.

Take the same number of people in New York, drop then in a forest the same size as New York, and watch how quickly society implodes upon itself without the technological infrastructure to support it.

Clearly, technology is doing something. Technology and society are so tightly tied together that you can’t untangle one from the other without destroying something.

I know some times when we bang things out on the keyboard they sound really insightful and intelligent, but some times we need to respect the preview button, read what we read, and decide if it really is insightful, or a load of thoughtless crap.

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