[barrysteve]

The article waffles on without providing any real insight or solutions.

The key solution is technology that empowers men.

- Self-driving cars should be an option for drivers to flick on and off at will.

- Mechanized looms should be custom built to enhance the craft.

- Computers should submit to their user's will and design.

None of that is guarenteed to continue.

Corporatized technology devours resources, and subverts human authority - with dark patterns and authoritarian policy.

Automation homogenizes the input and output, making products the same.

When every resource is under computer control, there won't be any need to have a capitalist own the profits. There won't be a need for employees to buy the output.

The concept of new startups will be flattened out by centralized resource control.

The technological revolution eats it's own future.

Why bother being a luddite?

The prognosis for technology is already terminal. Let's accelerate the decline.

[AstralStorm]

Production line (which is not synonymous with automation) is suspected to be the transitional stage until we can make everything customized for cheap. (See developments such as in 3D printing, of so many things. We cannot 3d print microchip fabs or high vacuum tech... yet.) Then it's the design where a bit more time is required. Given sufficient development artisanship and variety in design would be the actual rule.

I raise you decentralized/federated democratic resource control.

A bunch of items can be also made from interesting abundant materials, ultimately making them available is the challenge. (Gimme that glass and carbon nanotube 3D printer. And a home EUV lithography machine. We can already make a sputtering chamber almost on the cheap...)

Anything else you want to add before you prematurely condemn technology?