"Technology Fetishism is Skin Deep"
Eye-opening article for The Guardian by Guy Dammann. It’s a refreshingly honest analysis of our obsession with the latest bells and whistles:
We flatter ourselves with endless talk about living at the “cutting edge” in an era of “constant change” and “permanent technological revolution”. Most of the time, though, by conspiring to keep capacity at a set distance from potential, the progress implicit in the technological cycle of perpetual upgrading is an illusion we use to distract us from the numbingly slow speed at which real change actually takes place. How else do you explain that, over 80 years after women obtained equal voting rights in this country, we still can’t get more than four of them round the cabinet table, or more than one woman for every nine men into our company boardrooms?
Every word is soaked in truth.
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