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The Informed Preference for Permanence (Principles of Technoskepticism, Part Three)

Our technological mindset leads to an “enforced impermanence” as the new is always prioritized over the old. The resultant rootlessness and churn contributes to a sense of disequilibrium while keeping us apart from the steadying forces of tradition and wisdom.

By David A. J. Reynolds | March 21, 2018 | Agriculture, Philosophy, Society | Agribusiness, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, C.S. Lewis, Capitalism, Change, Chronological Snobbery, Communism, Connection, Culture, Czechoslovakia, Despoliation, Disequilibrium, Disorientation, Ecology, Edmund Burke, Family Farms, Farming, Fashion, Groundedness, Heritage, History, Impermanence, Inheritance, Inhumanity, Jan Patočka, Machines, Manipulation, Meaning, Michael Hanby, Michael Oakeshott, Modernity, Modernization, Nature, Newness, Obsolescence, Permanence, Presence, Presentism, Productivity, Reality, Roger Kimball, Roger Scruton, Soil, Stability, Standing Reserve, T.S. Eliot, Time, Tradition, Vaclav Havel, Value, Wisdom

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A Message From the Publisher

It’s our 2nd birthday! Publisher Mo Lotman shares a few thoughts about where we’ve come and where The Technoskeptic is going.

By Mo Lotman | February 28, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Community, Economics, Ethics, Government, Media, Philosophy, Privacy, Relationships, Society, Well-Being | Addiction, Amazon, Anxiety, Apple, Attention, Business, Center for Humane Technology, Community, Depression, Disconnection, Economics, Ethics, Facebook, Farhad Manjoo, Google, Microsoft, Opioids, Reality, Roger McNamee, smart phones, Specialization, Suicide, Tristan Harris

Complexity

The Problems of Prediction, Part 2

Our overconfidence in our predictive abilities can be traced to the simple fact that the universe is infinitely complex.

By David A. J. Reynolds | February 21, 2018 | Cognition, Economics, Government, Philosophy, Prediction, Society | Brexit, Britain, Certainty, Comprehension, Cosmology, Data, Economics, Elections, Error, Forecasting, Foresight, Freakonomics, Genetic Engineering, Hanna Arendt, Hubris, Ignorance, Infinity, Information, Knowledge, Limitations, Manipulations, Models, Neuroscience, Over-confidence, Philip Tetlock, Polling, Prediction, Reality, Statistics, Stephen Dubner, The Brain, The Universe, Truth, UK, Understanding, Unknowns, Unpredictability, US

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