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Tag: Technopoly

Enslaved to technology

I found myself scurrying around this week trying to keep ahead of technology. Keeping ahead of technology, actually, was impossible. The fact is I was doing technology’s bidding in order to keep my life in order, a situation in which I, and most of us, find ourselves regularly.

Rather than serving humanity,… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture 2 Comments May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 2 Minutes

Hacked to pieces

In an essay I wrote in 2008, I discussed the vulnerability of computer network technology to hacking, calling it “the soft underbelly” of the Internet. I was referring to the “swinging door” operation of computer servers, that their “in/out” communication security depends upon a “lock and key” approach… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture Leave a comment January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 2 Minutes
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