Wired News' new "anti-technology" column

I really like Tony Long, the Wired News copy chief who often puts together the Furthermore pieces on the right-hand side of the site. He's started a new column dedicated to Luddite thoughts. I'm very excited to see what he has to say, because it might be exactly the things we're often thinking subconsciously. For example:

For one thing, human beings are not meant to go as fast as modern technology compels them to go. Technology might make it possible to work at warp speed, yes, but that doesn't make it healthy. And just because the latest software makes it feasible to double your workload (or "productivity," to you middle-management types), that shouldn't give the boss the right to expect you will.

Anything that diminishes the value of a single human being poses a threat to a rational, humane society. When technology can cure a disease or help you with your homework or bring a little joy to a shut-in, that's great. But when it costs you your job, or trashes the environment, or takes you out of the real world in favor of a virtual one, or drives your blood pressure through the roof, it's a monster.