Technology Is Heroin
Author here. Previous two discussions on HN:<p>2009 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=471353" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=471353</a><p>2013 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6349447" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6349447</a><p>It&#x27;s interesting to look at the pushback from my fellow HN&#x27;ers when this first came out. I&#x27;m quite interested to know if many of them still feel that way.<p>The essay does not have any answers. The thesis is that the main problem is that most people don&#x27;t understand that there is a problem or why it exists. That may have changed over the last ten years.<p>Back then I was quite concerned that I didn&#x27;t have any good recommendations. The best I had was some version of &quot;We need to develop a new set of personal values before they&#x27;re programmed into us.&quot;<p>I still feel this way. As software continues to eat everything, I feel that the programming community is going to drug into morals, ethics, law, and philosophy whether we want to go there or not. We&#x27;re at the heart of most everything now.