I have written many articles about the destructive impact of technology sold to innocent greater-fools as the best thing since sliced bread.
I told you so
As a former technologist, I love technology and have deep insight into how technology bullies its users with controls it, not its audience, deems appropriate. I issued many warnings dating back more than twelve years, for which, in the reverberation of Silicon Valley’s echo chamber, I caught a lot of flack:
In 2020:
I told you so, India bans 59 apps
In 2019:
Can technology companies be trusted?
The pot of Congress calling facebook’s kettle black
Healthcare is no business for tech
Facebook’s future in society, a discussion with Mark Zuckerberg
How to combat technocratic bullying
Quora has gone mad, and why technology companies, again, must not be allowed to rule the human roost
In 2018:
How do you separate hype from reality specifically when considering the rise of new technologies?
Do you think humanity is too reliant on technology?
How technology like Facebook amplifies our stupidity, not our strengths
In 2017:
Yeah, let’s get our morality from Tim Cook
Technology has provided a higher standard of living, but what has humanity given up?
What are the major disadvantages of innovation?
Do you think we are close to the limits of technology?
In 2016:
Is technology killing our capacity for perspective?
How can tech startups contribute to a nation’s economic growth?
Privacy, technology’s favorite pet-peeve
Technology is the unprotected door to nation state sovereignty
No sovereign nation should adopt the immature economics of technology today
In 2015:
My reservations about technology innovation
Tech: Govern thyself or be governed
In 2014:
In 2013:
Why I don’t follow anyone on Twitter
Boulevard of broken ideologies
Apple found guilty, now grow up Apple
In 2012:
Internet reform must be driven by economic reform
In 2009:
Technology is not the risk of a technology company
Why innovation needs regulation
In 2008:
Cheating platforms, bad for our country
Waking Up At The Wheel Of Destruction
Now, finally, the government is waking up. President Joe Biden made mention of the impact of social media companies, and now European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen just announced wanting to enact new legislation to curb technology companies.
Interestingly, Tim Cook, guilty of running Apple’s own grand scheme of technocratic bullying, chiming in by also attacking social media, and in no uncertain terms its king, Facebook. Never mind Apple deploying some pretty nefarious constructs of its own to influence its audience, developers and creative people, with fixed pricing schemes, excessive royalties, and squeezing small vendors out of their livelihood.
Tim better not be preaching to the choir, because he is next on the shortlist of getting reviewed from top to bottom. And then there is the latest on Robinhood.
Fundamentally Incompatible
At the highest normalization of truth, all technology companies today create totalitarian monisms of absolutism incompatible with human relativity’s innate plurality. Meaning, the systems created by technology hold the expansion of humanity hostage with manmade manacles of make-believe incompatible with the fractal of human expansion needed to evolve.
By default, technology companies produce the opposite of improving human adaptability to nature’s entropy the most intelligent species on earth must build. For no totalitarian monism can encircle the innate plurality of humanity.
I suggest you heed my advice next time I write something because, unlike the companies above, my interests are not to produce another scheme from which I would profit but to use nature’s first-principles to adhere and abide by nature’s gameplay that determines the excellence and survival of the human species.
Take your time, read up on the articles above to learn how to begin to curb technocratic bullying from the start. It is yet another reason we need to deploy a new operating system for humanity I have been working on for the last ten years.
