Expecting technology to repair what it damages forgets that it sometimes lives off the damage.

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The optimist treats technology's ills as passing defects: to every problem, more ingenuity, a better setting, a smarter app. This is solutionism, the faith that every technical problem has a technical solution.
But the feed that held you tonight is not a clumsy tool to be perfected: it does exactly what it was designed to do. Holding you is not its flaw, it is its trade, for it is on your attention that those who build it make their living.
To hope, then, that the industry thriving on this mechanism will correct it of its own accord is to set the fox to guard the henhouse. Improvement may come, but not from refining the tool alone.

Therefore So the optimist is mistaken in filing under malfunctions what is, in truth, the machine's very purpose.

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