Michael Harris is the author of Solitude and The End of Absence, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award. He writes about media, civil liberties, and the arts, for dozens of publications, including The Washington Post, Wired, and Salon. Harris lives in Vancouver.
The historian Melvin Kranzberg reminded us—in the first of his “Laws of Technology”—that “technology is neither good nor evil.” And yet, he insisted, “neither is it neutral.” Our tools (however advanced) remain expressions of human intent. They magnify both our follies and our promise. So, to adopt a Kranzbergian attitude, where are there openings that […]
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