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14. We've got to stop making technology easier to use. Enabling luddites never ends well.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:34 PM
Aug 2016

Selling cans of spray paint at the entrance of a museum -- what could possibly go wrong?

Fundamentalists of every ilk are using the devices and communications networks created by people with knowledge to disseminate ignorance. It's damaging to our prospects as a species, IMO. If the world ending asteroid (that almost certainly IS out there) shows up and we've dragged our feet arguing about whether Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs, I'd be pissed at fundamentalists, for sure, but even more so at all the technological enabling that allowed their ideas to propagate.

End of this week's post-middle-aged rant.

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