i get the sense that back in the 70s that there was a real urgency to designing solutions to problems.

nowadays tech just feels like a grift through and through. the link between the following two has been severed: money that comes along with tech, and tangible benefits to broader society.

iirc computers may have issued from the military in the boom period, but it took some decades for computers to fully transition from research novelty to money making machine.

everything is rented now, everything has a price. how can i spark people's interest in what kant might have called a "critical" approach to tech?