{"id":77471,"date":"2018-04-03T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/musk-and-zuckerberg-are-fighting-over-whether-we-rule-technology-or-it-rules-us"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:03:14","slug":"musk-and-zuckerberg-are-fighting-over-whether-we-rule-technology-or-it-rules-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/musk-and-zuckerberg-are-fighting-over-whether-we-rule-technology-or-it-rules-us","title":{"rendered":"Musk and Zuckerberg Are Fighting Over Whether We Rule Technology\u2014Or it Rules Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/musk-and-zuckerberg-are-fighting-over-whether-we-rule-technology-or-it-rules-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the public imagination, the Amish are famous for renouncing modern technology. In truth, many Amish farms hum with machines: milk vats, mechanical agitators, diesel engines, and pneumatic belt sanders are all found in their barns and workshops.<\/p>\n<p>The Amish don\u2019t actually oppose technology. Rather, the community must vote on whether to adopt a given item. To do so, they must agree almost unanimously, says Jameson Wetmore, a social science researcher at Arizona State University. Whereas the outside world may see innovation as good until proven otherwise, the Amish first decide whether a new technology might erode the community values they\u2019re trying to preserve. \u201cIt is not individual technologies the concern us,\u201d one Amish minister told Wetmore, \u201cbut the total chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an idea that is resonating in Silicon Valley these days, where a debate over technology and its potential unintended consequences is cleaving the industry into rival camps\u2014each with a tech titan as its figurehead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/emerging-tech\/2018\/04\/musk-and-zuckerberg-are-fighting-over-whether-we-rule-technologyor-it-rules-us\/147125\/\">http:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/emerging-tech\/2018\/04\/musk-and-zucker...us\/147125\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the public imagination, the Amish are famous for renouncing modern technology. In truth, many Amish farms hum with machines: milk vats, mechanical agitators, diesel engines, and pneumatic belt sanders are all found in their barns and workshops. The Amish don\u2019t actually oppose technology. Rather, the community must vote on whether to adopt a given [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77471","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77509,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77471\/revisions\/77509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}