Since he's a former cop, it might be expected that he would come down on the more alarmist/law and order side of things but thankfully that was not the case.

For such a sobering book about such an alarmist topic, I kind of think that Goodman might actually identify himself more as a technology agnostic rather than any particular fundamentalist sect. Technologies are good or bad mostly in how they get used by human cultures, with obviously some technologies easier to misuse that others.Īnd so it is with Marc Goodman's new book, Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It. I take no particular absolute position on the goodness or badness of the web (or any technology, really, from 3d printers all the way to lead pencils). Personally, I'm kind of a technology agnostic. Both seem kind of like a technology religion.

Each have their famous online proponents. Needless to say, neither of these caricatures is wholly true or false. All the bad things in the world are because the web is disrupting science and art and culture. According to this theory, the web (and usually any technology) is the reason the world is going to hell in a hand basket. The other theory is the chicken little theory. Proponents of this theory can't stand it when anyone says anything mean about the web (or usually any technology) in public or especially online. The first theory is that it's the best thing ever, the culmination of human civilization, incapable of being anything negative in anyone's lives.

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