{"id":240164,"date":"2026-07-02T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/cyborg-luddite-steve-mann-technology-that-masters-nature-isnt-sustainable"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:03:26","slug":"cyborg-luddite-steve-mann-technology-that-masters-nature-isnt-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/cyborg-luddite-steve-mann-technology-that-masters-nature-isnt-sustainable","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg Luddite Steve Mann: Technology That Masters Nature Isn\u2019t Sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GWmiBVndVMY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>14 years ago, Steve Mann told me that technology that masters nature is not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, that sounded like the poetic caution of a man the media had nicknamed \u201cthe cyborg Luddite.\u201d Today it reads like a weather report.<\/p>\n<p>Steve is the person the IEEE named the father of wearable computing. He built the EyeTap decades before Google Glass, invented HDR imaging now sitting in the phone in your pocket, and was called the world\u2019s first cyborg. So when he argues for using less, for choosing which technologies to embrace and which to walk away from, he is not speaking from fear of the machine. He is speaking from a deeper intimacy with it than almost anyone alive.<\/p>\n<p>His core move was to refuse the framing everyone else accepted.<\/p>\n<p>Not more technology. Not less technology. Appropriate technology. Balanced with nature instead of replacing it.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the line that has aged into something close to prophecy:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/cyborg-luddite-steve-mann-technology-that-masters-nature-isnt-sustainable\">Continue reading \u201cCyborg Luddite Steve Mann: Technology That Masters Nature Isn\u2019t Sustainable\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 years ago, Steve Mann told me that technology that masters nature is not sustainable. At the time, that sounded like the poetic caution of a man the media had nicknamed \u201cthe cyborg Luddite.\u201d Today it reads like a weather report. Steve is the person the IEEE named the father of wearable computing. He built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1512,6,64,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}