To manage Bidenโs limitations, White House aides controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted. The administration denied Biden has declined. https://t.co/TElUF029Dd via @WSJ
THE TECHNO-OPTIMIST MANIFESTO part 1
โYou live in a deranged age โ more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.โ
โ Walker Percy
โOur species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way thatโs still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and technology available in England at the time of the Norman Conquest or in the Aztec Empire at the time of Columbus quite familiar. Then, beginning in the 18th Century, many peopleโs standard of living skyrocketed. What brought about this dramatic improvement, and why?โ
โ Marian Tupy
โThereโs a way to do it better. Find it.โ
โ Thomas Edison
Lies
We are being lied to.
We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.
We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about technology.
We are told to be pessimistic.
The myth of Prometheus โ in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator โ haunts our nightmares.
We are told to denounce our birthright โ our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.
We are told to be miserable about the future.
Why @AppleSupport is Contacts on MacOS Monterey such a POS? It is glitchy and slow. Try to edit or add a contact; you will always get the spinning beach ball while it figures out what to do. VERY AGGRAVATING!! Calling Apple Support only results in the the "it's a known issue"
@VerizonSupport what kind of customer service for VZW is it that keeps you on hold for 40+minutes without any connection? This after using your connect link for a call back in less than nine minutes, only to be stranded for 40+ minutes and no answer. Pls donโt blame COVID.