The Dangerous Propaganda Of Techno-Optimism

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• Yots92@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like being a realistic optimist: shit happens, not on me, but let us try to fix it anyway!

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  my hopes with tech lie squarely on opensource and federation

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think technology is absolutely vital when it comes to pulling us out of this tailspin we’re in.

  Billionaire tech CEOs, however, are not the ones who are going to do it. I look to the legitimate startups trying to solve the world’s problems.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    startups are just wannabe billionaire playboys.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve worked at several startups personally. Some are the way you say, no doubt. Some legitimately are trying to build something to help people. I’ve had corporate sponsored ones, investor backed, self funded, and incubator funded. There’s no “They all run this way”. Which is why I specified “legitimate” startup. One that’s there for the product, not just the money.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If your tech comes at the end of a service agreement and requires a credit card it isnt your tech.

  Open source tech is the only tech that one can be optimistic about

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How I learned to stop worrying and love the atomic bomb

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