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Technology Will Not Save Us
Technology Will Not Save Us
Technological utopianism is the belief that through technology we will solve the social and political problems we have. Through technology poverty, inequality, hunger, pollution, disease, crime, even death will be solved leading to a, sometimes communist but not always, utopia. Look around you, look at the technology we have. With the technology we have could solve inequality, division, hunger,…
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#Coding #Democracy is not just another optimistic declaration of #Technological #Utopianism; instead, it provides the tools for an urgently needed upgrade of #Democracy in the #Digital #Era. Overview of the book by Maureen Webb at MIT Press website. http://ow.ly/gECg50ywjVW
Technological utopianism (often called techno-utopianism or technoutopianism) refers to any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal. A techno-utopia is therefore a hypothetical ideal society, in which laws, government, and social conditions are solely operating for the benefit and well-being of all its citizens, set in the near- or far-future, when advanced science and technology will allow these ideal living standards to exist; for example, post-scarcity, transformations in human nature, the abolition of suffering and even the end of death.
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, several ideologies and movements, such as the cyberdelic counterculture, the Californian Ideology, transhumanism,[1] and singularitarianism, have emerged promoting a form of techno-utopia as a reachable goal. Cultural critic Imre Szeman argues technological utopianism is an irrational social narrative because there is no evidence to support it. He concludes that what it shows is the extent to which modern societies place a lot of faith in narratives of progress and technology overcoming things, despite all evidence to the contrary.
