I hope that technologists are also students of history. You do understand where all this is going don't you? What are you doing now to safeguard the future?
"Not my problem, won't happen in my lifetime" - yes it will.
"Not my problem, won't happen in my lifetime" - yes it will.
Not in the good ol' USA they aren't. This is precisely why I cringe every time I hear the usual anti-intellectual rant about how STEM fields are the only thing worth funding.
If you're serious about creating benevolent technology, you must necessarily be in favor of funding the humanities.
What do you think will happen if "technologists" decide to stop working on those projects? That the projects won't get done? Not a chance.
And "what are you doing to safeguard the future"?! What is any other group doing? Because almost everybody that is doing something will self identify as "technologist" nowadays.