
371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Negative Impact of Technology on Society
I think there are things that society does and goes ahead with technologically that if they had happened to be thought through a little differently, wouldn't have had as negative of an impact on society. I honestly think that the last 10 years of Facebook and Twitter, in particular, the net effect has been negative, not positive on society. It's just something that wasn't thought through. And I feel like there's the potential that the same thing could happen with AI. Yeah. Ben Thompson would argue with us about it but overall more of a negative effect than a positive effect.
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