[olliesaunders]

...you could even argue that technology has introduced a whole range of problems.

My view is that technology is power and power itself is neither good nor bad, it’s neutral. Power just increases the stakes, how the cards get dealt is the important point. As a society we spend a lot of time thinking about who has what power because we know what happens when you get it wrong. But, strangely, we don’t afford technology the same consideration. What happens instead is that whichever technology is just the right mix of popular and profitable proliferates while all others die. The implication of this belief is twofold:

* there are a whole load of great technologies with no means of generating profit that we will never benefit from

* there are a whole load of awful technologies that are profitable that have a negative effect on society that stick around.