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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Bliss? Maybe not. But, on a global scale, we would be foolish to trade the economic possibilities within our reach in the twenty-first century for those of our grandparents.
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Kevin Kelly: Seeing the Future
open.spotify.comWhether we’re talking about a smart finance grid, biohacking, drone warfare, space colonization, or universal basic income, technosolutions are too commonly informed by the values inherent in technology itself: exponential growth, automation over human intervention, forward momentum, platformization, and a disregard for existing conditions on the g
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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.