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		AnimalMuppet on April 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 We can at least sense that the potential is there for technology to become something horrible and oppressive - either on its own, or underlying some kind of oppressive government. We don't have to know the exact form it will take. We should oppose all the forms that tech can become oppressive.

BlueTemplar on April 15, 2022 [–]

Well, the 20th century gave us a lot of examples already...

But are you seriously rejecting the post-WW2 paradigm where tech was made sacred and engineers and scientists were turned into its high priests ?

I know some people like that, but I wouldn't have expected to see them on hacker news !

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