[otakucode]

A significant amount of how our society approaches technology issues almost seems like everyone has agreed that they WANT a gigantic catastrophe. Like they want to see an action-movie-scale real life supervillain to emerge who uses technology to severely harm people. I won't be surprised when one nutcase has prison doors flying open, planes falling from the sky, ATMs nationwide spilling into the streets, stock market prices spinning randomly, electrical grids frying themselves and everything attached, all at the same time.

[carapace]

Yep. Our (global) civilization carries within it the seeds of its own destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_and_Its_Disconten...

Corollary: It is vital (no pun intended) that we learn to live in harmony with Nature or we will destroy ourselves.