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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad as Fish" data-source="post: 63453" data-attributes="member: 396">I do harbour a couple of doubts here. The first is that technology enables us to do things we never saw a need to do before, and in doing so it ties up a lot of resources, which have to be paid for. The classic example is online marketing. 20 years ago there was a great rush to get yourself a website as a sort of online brochure. This was grand, once established they just need the occasional update, then along came social media and search engines which only took notice of your site if it had a lot of traffic, suddenly, looking after a company's online presence became a full time job of its own, but one that is not productive in the strict sense of the word.Secondly, I am not at all convinced that technology is accelerating in the way that Booth thinks. Rather, we are seeing it getting so clever that it is disappearing up its own backside with little impact on wider society. Autonomous cars have stalled, electric vehicles are under a cloud,  AI is busy pissing people off and so on. We have stopped gasping in awe at the latest gadget and are now questioning the desirability of what is offered to us as never before.On the whole I am not sure that technology has made our lives that much easier, it pampers us and makes us feel good, but I don't think it makes us any happier or more content. It can also frustrate those who do not wish, or are unable to engage with it, and it facilitates those who would wish to control us, something that is being recognised more clearly as each new 'thing' arrives like clockwork.</blockquote>

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