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deweller on Nov 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin ‘Ought to Be Outlawed,’ Nobel Prize Winner...

Any truly transformative technology is very polarizing.

The printing press and cars (horseless carriages) were followed by people who HATED these things when they were first introduced into society.

sanderjd on Nov 30, 2017 [–]

However, it does not follow that every very polarizing technology is truly transformative.

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