Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It

Aha! This post does a great job of putting together some ideas that have been rattling around my brain for a while.

Specifically:

“saving” time and labor have become default settings and social imperatives. Rather than wisely judging what labor or time can and ought to be “saved,” our tendency is to buy into the promise indiscriminately.

It has long been my impression that historical Luddites were actively (read: violently) opposing/questioning this default. And now neo-Luddites are doing the same, though more in the realm of consumer technology as opposed to manufacturing.

What should we be asking of our technology? Well the same author addresses that:

The Questions Concerning Technology