On Technology

This page is designed to aggregate various musing on the progression of technology, its effects on culture, and the idea of “enough.” What exists here, now, is a list of topics that I often think about. Some I have notes on and some I hope to eventually put my thoughts down in writing. The Table of Topics below is a placeholder for some of the notes and resources I plan to write and collect.

Table of Topics

• Technology, Individualism, and social responsibility
• The Fight to be Secure - thoughts on infosec
• The Technological Society - notes on Jacques Ellul
• Luddites & Neo-Luddites
• Communication
• Anarcho-primitivism & The Problem of Civilization
• Notes on Equalization - when do we have “enough?”
  • Why keep going?
• Abastracting Away Real Life - what happens when you disconnect from the natural world?
• Technology and the economy - more production and consumption

People

• Jacques Ellul
• Albert Borgmann
• Don Ihde
• Hubert Dreyfus
• David Gelertner (Mirror Worlds)
• Andrew Feenberg