Tsundoku Psychohazard
These folks weren't trying to predict our current future. They were trying to create a future worth living in, & we failed to make that happen.
Englebart could do MOAD in 1968 because that was the available tech. It looks familiar not because it's ahead of its time but because we stopped progressing.
Tsundoku Psychohazard
'Technology' does not have a teleology. *Particular* technologies have biases -- particular behaviors they are a better fit for. We should be careful of naturalistic fallacies & technological determinism: when those biases don't fit our desires, we should replace the tools.
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