The cruelty of Tech Utopianism

The cruelty of Tech Utopianism

For almost 200 years, a spectre stalked Europe: utopianism. Fired in the embers of the French Revolution, then fanned by socialists and communists, the idea of a man-made paradise reached its apotheosis in the Sixties when the hippies promised a blissful new world — one filled with free love and strong pot. By the Nineties, the project slumped into embarrassing failure, from the end of modernist town planning to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. T

Tech Intellectuals and the "TESCREAL Bundle" - 3 Quarks Daily

by David Kordahl Adam Becker alleges that tech intellectuals overstate their cases while flirting with fascism, but offers no replacement for techno-utopianism. People, as we all know firsthand, are not perfectly rational. Our beliefs are contradictory and uncertain. One might charitably conclude that we “contain multitudes”—or, less charitably, that we are often just confused. That said, our contradictory beliefs sometimes follow their own obsc…