The Power of
Stupidity
The Stupidity of Technologies
by Giancarlo Livraghi – stupidity.it – gandalf.it
These are links to some articles that I had written
before
The Power of Stupidity was published as a book
(as indicated in chapter 19) and a few that I added later
Necromancing and navigating – 1996
Gutenberg, Manuzio and sex – 1996
Forests, dinosaurs, squirrels and Phoenicians – 1996
The Hermes pendulum and the art of lightness – 1996
The dangers of spamming – 1997
The technology delusion – 1997
The idoru, the comet, the aliens and us – 1997
When technology becomes a nuisance – 1997
Forgetting netiquette – 1997
A train to Mars – 1998
Technology and service – 1999
Hype and disappointment – 1999
Machines aren’t “bad”, but they are very stupid – 1999
Squeezed bread and toasted lemon – 1999
Do androids dream of electric money? – 2000
This isn’t a war of “new” against “old” – 2000
The doom of the farrier – 2000
The millennium and the bubble – 2001
Sailing in the fog – 2001
Saint Isidore and infallibility – 2001
Not just another hoax – 2001
E-mail woes – 2001
The broadband disease – 2002
Schzophrenia and opportunities – 2002
Naked technology – 2002
The pitfalls of fashion – 2002
The spam disease (1) – 2002
The spam disease (2) – 2002
Less and better – 2003
Less is better – 2003
Spam and scam – 2003
The powerpoint disease – 2004
The Archimedes computer – 2004
The stupidity of technologies – 2004
Applying Asimov’s laws – 2007
The Moore legend – 2009
Why websites don’t work – 2009
