Jake Wohlers’s Reviews > Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology > Status Update

This freaking book man. Holy cow.

"Cultures must have narratives and will find them where they will, even if they lead to catastrophe. The alternative is to live without meaning, the ultimate negation of life itself."

"In Technopoly, it is not enough for social sciences to rediscover ancient truths or to comment on the moral behavior of people. In Technopoly, it is an insult to call someone a 'moralizer.' Nor is it sufficient for social research to put forward metaphors, images, and ideas that can help people live with some measure of understanding and dignity."

"The computer functions as a kind of impersonal accuser which does not reveal, and is not required to reveal, the sources of the judgements made against us. It is apparently sufficient that the computer has pronounced."

I would love to know what I can even do here

I don't even know what to do or how to react

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