Bloomberg and the Japan Times on the Plight of Man: A TikTok Video to Come?
February 18, 2022
I read “‘Sapiens’? Humans Aren’t Wise, Just Too Smart for Our Own Good.” Bloomberg is the firm providing the trading system to many of Wall Street’s brightest minds. Japan is the country which has created the management actions of Toshiba and the Toyota subscription to remote starting. What I noted in the write up was this passage:
The late B.K.S. Iyengar, a yogi, once said that intelligence, like money, is a good servant but a bad master. Even science has explored why and how smart people can be so foolish. In a nutshell, it comes down to a cocktail of egocentrism, narcissism and arrogance that overpowers everything else — or what the ancient Greeks called hubris.
From the assertion that spy chips were on motherboards to ways to make life interesting for automobile owners, it is interesting to think about hubris. And the yogi. Was he talking about those who think technology solves mankind’s problems?
Stephen E Arnold, February 18, 2022
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