9/11, as everyone agrees, was a terrible atrocity, maybe the worst single terrorist crime ever. Undoubtedly had major consequences which we are living with. It may be useful to carry out a thought experiment and ask how bad it could’ve been. It could’ve been much worse.
Evgeny Morozov on Silicon Valley Solutionism
presented by Evgeny Morozov
There is this bias in society that as long as you have more information things are automatically better because you have more knowledge. It's a bias that goes all the way back to the Enlightenment. Read more →