Dedicated to exploring the impacts of technology, particularly digital technologies
Jonathan Stephens
April 29, 2026
> Our title is intended to invoke a few things: the human-scale technology of hand looms that have been used for millennia to weave textiles; the power-looms that displaced skilled workers during the early industrial era; the sense of looming threat in an age of unregulated Big Tech growth; and the etymological link between textile, technology, and text.
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> Our position is not anti-technology. We are in favor of technologies that are created and used with informed consent and that support human flourishing. But we don’t buy the hype.
Discussion in the ATmosphere