Tweets on a single topic ("The Limits of Technology") published within a short period.
Shown here in the order tweeted (earliest first).
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Mar 27 2011: The internet revolution is supported mainly by the trashy, exploitative ads in the margins of websites. Brave New World or same old one? [view in context] 3838
Mar 28 2011: Since the beginning of time, young people have fallen for the current New Thing, thinking it's the revolution that will change the world. 3839
Mar 28 2011: Everyone wants to "change the world." Well, that doesn't mean that you've improved the world. 3840
Mar 28 2011: A bold thesis: Technology does little to improve the world. It merely rearranges the Have's and Have-Not's. 3841
Mar 28 2011: Technology may solve old problems, but it inevitably creates new ones in their place. 3842
Mar 28 2011: Technology can't solve civil wars or poverty or overpopulation or drug abuse or child abuse or most of the other problems of man. 3843
Mar 28 2011: For every person liberated by technology, another is enslaved by it. 3844
Mar 28 2011: Technology can help start civil wars, can contribute to the decline of the "old order", but new tyrannies rise up to replace it. 3845
Mar 28 2011: What makes societies strong and stable is social structure, not technology. 3846
Mar 28 2011: Technology is a big, fat distraction to addressing the world's problems. 3847
Mar 28 2011: You're a fool if you think the solution to world hunger is simply to produce more food. Technology can help with that, yet change nothing. 3848
Mar 28 2011: Technology promotes arms races among competing parties. One gets a new thing, so the opponent gets it, with no net change in the status quo. 3849
Mar 28 2011: Technology keeps itself in business through continuous obsolescence of old technology. 3850
Mar 28 2011: As more resources are absorbed by technology, is quality of life improving? Or is technology just a parasite draining our resources? 3851
Mar 28 2011: #### End. This has been a live 1-hour essay by the Bad Dalai Lama: "Technology" 3852
Mar 28 2011: RT @trevlutz: @BadDalaiLama So says the man who utilizes tech everyday to better himself and to globally disseminate his gained insight. 3853
Mar 28 2011: .@trevlutz Technology certainly benefits me personally, but as I look around, I don't see it benefiting society. 3854
Mar 28 2011: For every benefit you can cite for technology, I can point out a corresponding loss for society. 3855
Mar 28 2011: @exurban "writing" <== LOL! Good one! I'll have to think about that! 3856
Mar 28 2011: Everything will change when Zefram Cochrane invents the warp drive in 2063. Can't put the genie back in that bottle! 3857
Mar 28 2011: Technology made us who we are (Where would we be without writing, fire or agriculture?) but that doesn't mean we're better with more of it. 3858
Mar 28 2011: @trevlutz "Would you have people stop being inventive?" <== I have no control over this, but being inventive in itself is no panacea. 3859
Mar 28 2011: Social problems cannot be solved by technological innovation. [view in context]
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