Sometimes, though, a slippery slope is real. In the early days of the automobile, some critics feared cars would take over city streets — and that we’d get so addicted to car travel that we’d rebuild the whole country around cars. Those critics nailed it. That really did happen. The same thing goes with Facebook or other social media; some early critics predicted they’d poison social and civic life. Again: Nailed it.
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How To Recognize When Tech Is Leading Us Down a ‘Slippery Slope’
onezero.medium.comMinus is a finite social network where you get 100 posts—for life
minus.socialMeet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
vice.comThe Questions Concerning Technology — by L. M. Sacasas — The Convivial Society
theconvivialsociety.substack.comThis is not, of course, an exhaustive set of questions, nor do I claim any unique profundity for them. I do hope, however, that they are useful, wherever we happen to find ourselves in relation to technological artifacts and systems.