Paul Graham argues that technology can take things we like and concentrate them to make them more addictive. As technology improves, this process will accelerate. Here are two quotes from his post: “No one doubts this process is accelerating” and “the world will get more addictive in the next 40 years than it did in the last 40”. I want to push back on this. This only looks at one force: the technological force. And that’s clearly increasing. But it ignores the opposing force: that ...
