the sources of technological solutionism
If you’re looking for case studies in technological solutionism — well, first of all, you won’t have to look...
Tag: Utopianism
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The Grand Academy of Silicon Valley
After writing today’s post I couldn’t shake the notion that all this conversation about simplifying and...
American TechGnosis
Erik Davis has written a new afterword to his 1989 book TechGnosis, and it’s very much worth a read. It’s a...
happy stories
I’ll pay $100 for the best 100-word description of a plausible technological future in 100 years that I would like to...
how not to write a book review, techno-utopian edition
Maria Bustillos’s review of Nick Carr’s new book The Glass Cage is really, really badly done. Let me illustrate...
report from the Luddite kingdom
What world does Michael Solana live in? Apparently, a world where Luddites have taken power and have driven our kind...
Kevin Kelly's New Theology
Kevin Kelly’s theology is a contemporary version of the one George Bernard Shaw articulated a hundred years ago. In...
the self that computers know
Ed Finn: The idea that a computer might know you better than you know yourself may sound preposterous, but take stock...
the Underground Man addresses the solutionists
In essays and books, Evgeny Morozov has outlined four intellectual pathologies of the code-literate and code-celebrant:...
creepy lines (and those who draw them)
Follow-up to this post: The end of the interview turned to the future of technology. When Bennet asked about the...