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We have been ensnared by our own technology.

https://netfuture.org/2001/Nov1501_125.html

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Thank you so much for linking this!

I've had an intuition that much recent ouroboric "technology for technology's" sake is actually more pernicious that it appears to be (at first glance).

Reading that essay helped crystallize the "why" behind that feeling.