Good call. I’d add organised labour if I was doing a personal accounting.
We could probably have had trans rights without Burou’s surgeries and HRT but they surely had some impact, bringing it forward(?)
No, I don’t have a strong opinion either way. I suspect they’re ‘wickedly’ entangled. Just pushing back against the assumption that historical views, or policy views, can be assumed to be unempirical.
Is your claim (that soc > tech) retrospective only? I can think of plenty of speculated technologies that swamp all past social effects (e.g. super-longevity, brain emulation, suffering abolitionism) and perhaps all future social effects.
Any technology comes with its own rights struggle. Universal access to super-longevity, the issue of allowing birth vs exploding overpopulation if everyone were to live many times longer, em rights, just to name a few. New tech will hardly have any positive effect if these social issues resolve in a wrong way.
Good call. I’d add organised labour if I was doing a personal accounting.
We could probably have had trans rights without Burou’s surgeries and HRT but they surely had some impact, bringing it forward(?)
No, I don’t have a strong opinion either way. I suspect they’re ‘wickedly’ entangled. Just pushing back against the assumption that historical views, or policy views, can be assumed to be unempirical.
Is your claim (that soc > tech) retrospective only? I can think of plenty of speculated technologies that swamp all past social effects (e.g. super-longevity, brain emulation, suffering abolitionism) and perhaps all future social effects.
Any technology comes with its own rights struggle. Universal access to super-longevity, the issue of allowing birth vs exploding overpopulation if everyone were to live many times longer, em rights, just to name a few. New tech will hardly have any positive effect if these social issues resolve in a wrong way.
Fair. But without tech there would be much less to fight for. So it’s multiplicative.