Name: A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
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A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?

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On December 31, 2021, a year after this story was published, one of the bettors changed his mind. Sort of. Find out at the end of the piece. 1995, WIRED’s executive editor and resident techno-optimist Kevin Kelly went to the Greenwich Village apartment of the author Kirkpatrick Sale. Kelly had asked Sale for . But he planned an ambush.Kelly had just read an early copy of Sale’s upcoming book, called Rebels Against the Future. It told the story of the 19th-century Luddites, a movement of workers opposed to the machinery of the Industrial Revolution. Before their rebellion was squashed and...

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