IS IT O.K. TO BE A LUDDITE?

Thomas Pynchon · NYTimes

One was the concentration of capital that each machine represented, and the other was the ability of each machine to put a certain number of humans out of work – to be ”worth” that many human souls.

It was open-eyed class war.

If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will come – you heard it here first – when the curves of research and development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics all converge. Oboy.

Written in 1984 👆 heh

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