TECHNOLOGY AND DATA:

Neither Barzun nor myself are opposed to technology or data per se - it is the way our culture tries to isolate technology from the cultural environment and, hence, de-value most everything the house of the intellect values. The notion that the quality of the people who control technology and the experiences of people who interact with it simply do not matter is one of the recurrent and obviously deeply flawed cultural concepts that has attached itself to our modern conception. The chart I mention is below and demonstrates that, at least as traditionally measured, workers are not producing more per capita despite 50+ years of massive technological transformation. 

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