Kernel | take back the future! the progressive case for techno-optimism
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Kernel | take back the future! the progressive case for techno-optimism
As a result, technological innovation has become understood less as a way to bring better, more fulfilling products and experiences to people, than as another means of doubling down on domination, extraction, and growth.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
But as more tech folks jump aboard the progress train, I’d suggest that they go one click deeper in illustrating what kind of society we’re hurtling toward. Which technologies they’d like to see in abundance, and which they’d prefer stay scarce. And put away the cyberpunk for a second: What about our relationships to each other? The kind of “good l... See more
Jasmine Sun • 🌻 tech right (disambiguation)
As Andreessen had explained in an article a month earlier in the New York Times, A mysterious new technology emerges, seemingly out of nowhere, but actually the result of two decades of intense research and development by nearly anonymous researchers. Political idealists project visions of liberation and revolution onto it; establishment elites hea
... See moreGeorge Gilder • Life After Google
Where do we find the much-needed alternative? While researching my latest podcast, A Sense of Rebellion, I stumbled on a series of debates that took place in the 1970s and pointed in the right direction. Back then, a small group of hippy radicals were advocating for “ecological technology” and “counter-technology”. They weren’t satisfied with merel... See more