National Accelerationism

Systemic problems require systemic solutions. We can recognize that technology is critical to our future without replicating the narrow techno-utopianism of the past. From the beginning, a new left techno-optimism must be willing to engage with social justice, politics, and history in a way that past techno-utopians have not.

As explained by Carlota Perez, each techno-economic paradigm involves a new understanding of the current means of production and consumption. In turn, it imposes a new way of life and thus calls for new institutions. Only with a new “socio-institutional framework”[72] in line with the new age can society enter a period marked by the redistribution

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We’re currently going through the fifth great surge of development since the Industrial Revolution, one that is leading us into the age of ubiquitous computing and networks. ● During the previous great surge, that of the automobile and mass production, the installation period culminated in problems similar to those we’re experiencing today. ● Those

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