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Ms.
Bolender was three days behind on her monthly car payment. Her lender,
C.A.G. Acceptance of Mesa, Ariz., remotely activated a device in her
car’s dashboard that prevented her car from starting. Before she could
get back on the road, she had to pay more than $389, money she did not
have that morning in March.
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There's
nothing I can say that your own fertile brains haven't already screamed
into your head. As for my Unabomber lede (something an Austin TX grand
jury may someday throw in my face), I'm not alone in recognizing his
prescience re: techno-chills.
“Ted
Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic
professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own
agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of
individual artifacts and gadgets for sale. Rather, Kaczynski, speaking
as the Unabomber, argued that technology is a dynamic holistic system.
It is not mere hardware; rather it is more akin to an organism. It is
not inert, nor passive; rather the technium seeks and grabs resources
for its own expansion. It is not merely the sum of human action, but in
fact it transcends human actions and desires. I think Kaczynski was
right about these claims. In his own words the Unabomber says: “The
system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is
human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.
This has nothing to do with the political or social ideology that may
pretend to guide the technological system. It is the fault of
technology, because the system is guided not by ideology but by
technical necessity.”’” [Here] |
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