Techno-worship is a triumphalist and intolerant cult?
Any journalist who cheerleads uncritically for Twitter is essentially asking for his own destruction, says NewYorker.com, noting: That's what George Packer writes in a follow-up to his earlier "Stop the World" post. GP also says:
* "The response to my post tells me that techno-worship is a triumphalist and intolerant cult that doesn't like to be asked questions."
* "The Internet and the devices it's spawned are systematically changing our intellectual activities with breathtaking speed, and more profoundly than over the past seven centuries combined. It shouldn't be an act of heresy to ask about the trade-offs that come with this revolution."
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"techno-worship is a triumphalist and intolerant cult that doesn’t like to be asked questions:"
http://is.gd/7KO9v Ya got us, George Packer!
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...biltonite.html
GP's first NYer story:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...the-world.html