Lightning Talk – Eric Tillberg
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Uses ChatGPT to check assumptions and claims that technologists default to a technology-progressive theory of history — progress is assumed, loss is rare — contrasted with cyclical models like anacyclosis and Marxist dialectic. Argues reality mixes cycles and progression, urges distinguishing which applies in concrete software and business domains, and warns that perpetual technological growth runs into planetary constraints rather than continuing unchecked.
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