The Luddite is an interesting columnist, often critiquing new technologies in an interesting way. He doesn't hate new things for no reason, just new things that destroy something good about living life.
His criticism this week about Google taking pictures of every public street in big cities is quite enjoyable.
Reminds me of The Corporation, a non-fiction film that criticizes the LLC legal structure as being inherently destructive and psycopathically uncompassionate. I feel like we need to rebuild the common good as something people value, and expose the lie of the marketplace as an efficient way of doing things.
Markets and corporations may do a good job of finding the fastest, cheapest way to do a job, but they are lousy at figuring out which jobs deserve doing. And they're lousy at doing things safely, fairly, or sustainably. We need democratic, representative organizations to ensure that corporations don't poison us, use up unreplaceable resources, or leave most of us out of their success.
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