17 Fourteen companies can access the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism's (GIFCT) database, including Reddit, Snapchat-owner Snap (SNAP.N), Facebook-owned Instagram, Verizon (VZ.N) Media, Microsoft's LinkedIn and file-sharing service Dropbox (DBX.O). (www.reuters.com) posted 3 years ago by the-new-style 3 years ago by the-new-style +17 / -0 8 comments share 8 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Ellul lays it out in The Technological Society (1963). Once we went from tools to machines, we doomed ourselves to become tools of the machines.
Our hope as humans is to turn away from the material but the forces against that are massive.
Efficiency and optimization and the rational will grind us into dust.
And I am an professional optimizer :(