What is the best example you can think of for a technology/design that is considered to be 'good' which was created by a person/group considered to be 'bad'?
Best one that comes to my mind is the 'Jerrycan' which is arguably a nazi design and went on to become the standard design of its kind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrycan
(Looking for arguments against technological essentialism)
Best one that comes to my mind is the 'Jerrycan' which is arguably a nazi design and went on to become the standard design of its kind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrycan
(Looking for arguments against technological essentialism)
Doug Webb •
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Doug Webb •
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters •
#inventions
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Nemo_bis 🌈 •
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_inventions_or_discoveries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_invention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_inventions
Doug Webb •
I'm thinking of an example more along the lines of " the inventor of Torx Screws was a white supremacist" (<- not true to my knowledge!)
George Jones :emacs: :orgmode: •
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: •
If Hitler himself would have derived a great mathematical formula, would this formula be less great or true because of Hitler being one of the biggest assholes ever lived? 🤔
As far as I know, Roger Waters (Ex-Pink Floyd) is an asshole (not in any similar category compared to Hitler!) but I love his music nevertheless.