I’ve been wondering about the relationship between technological innovation and risk 

When are they proportionate and disproportionate? Does innovation always produce symmetrical risks, e.g. the ship always produces the shipwreck? 

It obviously can’t be a perfectly proportionate relationship but I wish it could be understood better

What if there was a ViX for technology taking an index of progress and risk indicators? This would likely be doomed by speculative counterfactuals and technological doomers, but it feels like we’re already confronting the shadow of this now

Writing about how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build https://keikreutler.net 🗝️

Technological Slavery by Ted Kaczynski is worth a read on a very pessimistic outlook of technology.

Follow it up with What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly or Systemantics by John Gall for a different perspective.

They may help with understanding how to frame the risk.