What's a healthy relationship to technology

9/1/2023
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The question is there in the title and I don't
really have an answer myself: what *is* a healthy
relationship to new tech?

These days I feel like I see every new development
that comes out of the tech sector in terms of
"okay, how is this going to be used for more
extraction, more exploitation?" or "oh this seems
fun...so what's the catch? how am I going to get
screwed later?"

Was it always like this and when I was young I
just didn't notice or are things actually getting
worse? Were there people who looked at the
proliferation of radio a century and change ago
and thought "ah, this is going to fuck us over"?

I know the easy answer is to say that the problem
is capitalism: but capitalism is far far younger
than the impulse to conquer, to control, to
exploit. It's the economics that developed to
enable the violence, not the cause of the
violence.

So what do we do to make it better? What does that
even look like to live without exploitation, to
invent not only without the motivation of profit
but without the motivation of dominance, of
conquering?

I feel like I can't even imagine it
anymore. Some of the ideas coming out of the
permacomputing umbrella are visions along these
lines but nothing so total.