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I agree with your high sentiments regarding Elon Musk (however technology is in fact causing a huge toll, see climate change. In fact the very reason why we look at Elon the way we do is because technology's "price" as you put it is in fact not "fairly low".), but your central premise, essentially that human behavior is what's most responsible, not the tool (ie "guns dont kill people, people kill people") misses the the realization that if we can't critique the tool, we can't change it. If we are tech enthusiasts, the discussion shouldn't be about what the causal effect is (because every problem can be reduced to human nature, and how useful is it to stop there?) but rather the discussion should be how we can improve the world wide web, and its empowerment of humanity and its amplification of our varied opinions, so as to better human interactions. To give an analogy, to stop at human nature would be to, I admit, correctly blame humans for car accidents, but, and here's my point, it would fail to make any further vehicle improvements (ie self driving vehicles) to reduce the amount of people dying each year from car accidents. Yes, humanity is at fault, but are we going to change humanity to fit cars, or change cars to fit humanity? Additionally, there are in fact massive amount of quality data, ie scientific journals, that are behind massive paywalls/"academia walls" and not in anyway freely available. This is the "data" that matters most, not IMDB or piratebay to rip movies and applications illegally. |