- Author: Simon Sarris
- Full Title: Careful Technology
- Category: articles
- Document Tags: #tech
- URL: https://map.simonsarris.com/p/careful-technology
Highlights
- Technology is doing more with less. This is a definition we should not lose sight of. The wheel allows one to move more weight, or with less effort. The gas boiler allows heating with less labor than coal. Email is faster and cheaper than postal mail. There are other tradeoffs made of course, we’ll get to that. (View Highlight)
- Does it make coffee cheaper? *No
*Higher quality brew? *No
*Less maintenance? *Also no
*More ecological? *Alas…
*Healthier? You’re squirting boiling water through plastic
Prettier? *It practically invented corporate chic — it is inviting a piece of the office lunchroom into your home
*Is it faster? Yes. It is. (View Highlight)
- If people hate technology and think it clashes with nature, I find it hard to blame technology. We have careless technology because we are careless in evaluating it. We demand too little of it, or we are willing to sacrifice too much for too little in return. (View Highlight)