James Mickens' 'Technological Manifest Destiny', cited at UseNIX 2018, is a real thing. At the time, listening to it, it was easy to chuckle, but I've since had a lot of sobering conversations with people in which I realized partway through that they really believed these things, and that's frightening.
Technological Manifest Destiny:
1. Technology is value neutral and will therefore automatically lead to great outcomes for everyone.
2. If we delay the rollout of new technology than we would delay the distribution of the inevitably great impacts for everyone.
3. History is generally uninteresting because the past has nothing to teach us right now.
Technological Manifest Destiny:
1. Technology is value neutral and will therefore automatically lead to great outcomes for everyone.
2. If we delay the rollout of new technology than we would delay the distribution of the inevitably great impacts for everyone.
3. History is generally uninteresting because the past has nothing to teach us right now.
(https://www.zachpfeffer.com/single-post/2018/11/27/Transcrip..., ca. 37 minutes in)