Why does technology create new problems for each problem it solves? | Mark Buchanan

Technology is tricky. That’s why we need to think more carefully about risks and follow a more cautious approachToday, so-called techno-optimists fill the ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires. They proclaim a bright future for humanity delivered by the rapid pursuit of technological advances.Of course, these techno-optimists are right that technology and science are unarguably among humanity’s greatest assets, and hope for the future. But they go too far, because it is also true that