Tech’s Biggest Lie: Evolution
by Miki Saxon
As we saw yesterday, staying highly skeptical of all cyber-information, from friends/followers through speeches and videos is a necessity these days.
But the question arises,
Where did we get the idea that tech meant progress and that it’s inevitable.
Neither are true, especially the inevitable part.
The tech world loves to claim that technology is like evolution, therefore inevitable.
Technologists’ desire to make a parallel to evolution is flawed at its very foundation. Evolution is driven by random mutation — mistakes, not plans. (…) Evolution doesn’t patent things or do focus groups. Evolution doesn’t spend millions of dollars lobbying Congress to ensure that its plans go unfettered.
What a crock, but people have bought into the mindset.
You can see it playing out in all the smart (hackable) products.
People claim they want the convenience, but that so-called convenience is killing creativity.
Humans make choices.
Tech bosses are human.
And it’s us humans who will pay the price for the supposed inevitability of tech evolution.
Image credit: Charles LeBlanc
