Sympathetic Tim Wu Analysis

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Sympathetic There is a major flaw with the current framework of technology. Tim Wu a professor at Columbia Law writes for The New Yorker In his article “As technology gets better, will society get worse?” Believing the problem with technology is that it is under our control and that we do not always make the best decisions with it. He talks about a once isolated tribe known as the Oji-Cree just north of the Hudson Bay where contact with European settlers has revolutionized their society moving their tribe hundreds of years forward in just a few decades. However, without the threat of winter starvation due to technology has caused a chain reaction of the many problems our society faces today, such as obesity, drug addiction, and alarming rates