1/15 Every tech policy debate - every single one - boils down to what @AdamThierer describes in this excellent new essay. At the risk of being excessively parochial, however, I'd go even further.

medium.com/@AdamThierer/i… 2/15 You either believe in technology and progress as fundamentally-positive forces that improve the human condition, or vacuous outgrowths of a dehumanizing drive to exchange the essential qualities of our "true" humanity for the comforts and benefits of ... well, civilization.