I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better

Joan Westenberg: Faced with the relentless, myopic, growth-at-all-costs optimism that seems to surround our tech overlords and their toys, all I can think is that I'd rather give up 99% of the consumer-tech "improvements" to go back to a world where things felt a little bit harder, and a lot more human. This perfectly encapsulates a feeling of uneasiness that has been growing in the back of my…