#techno-optimism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techno-optimism, aggregated by home.social.
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The limited resources of the overstretched #Left are wasted, either on finding ways of caging the #machine (impossible), domesticating it (delusional), or arguing with others on the Left that the machine isn't necessary (Sisyphean).
#AI #Musk #degrowth #technology #innovation #technooptimism
https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/
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The limited resources of the overstretched #Left are wasted, either on finding ways of caging the #machine (impossible), domesticating it (delusional), or arguing with others on the Left that the machine isn't necessary (Sisyphean).
#AI #Musk #degrowth #technology #innovation #technooptimism
https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/
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The limited resources of the overstretched #Left are wasted, either on finding ways of caging the #machine (impossible), domesticating it (delusional), or arguing with others on the Left that the machine isn't necessary (Sisyphean).
#AI #Musk #degrowth #technology #innovation #technooptimism
https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/
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The limited resources of the overstretched #Left are wasted, either on finding ways of caging the #machine (impossible), domesticating it (delusional), or arguing with others on the Left that the machine isn't necessary (Sisyphean).
#AI #Musk #degrowth #technology #innovation #technooptimism
https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/
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The limited resources of the overstretched #Left are wasted, either on finding ways of caging the #machine (impossible), domesticating it (delusional), or arguing with others on the Left that the machine isn't necessary (Sisyphean).
#AI #Musk #degrowth #technology #innovation #technooptimism
https://thatmarta.wordpress.com/2026/06/12/magical-thinking/
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https://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/
This article is from 2014, quite before generative artificial intelligence became a thing. You'll find the focus very different than similar alarmist articles written after. Can't say I agree with many, if any, of the conclusions (those that are here).
Stephen Hawking, before his death (...and other things...) was quoted here as saying "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
Ugh. The presence of Elon Musk in this grouping of so-called "smartest people" warning about the dangers of misaligned artificial intelligences turned supremely ironic rather quickly, didn't it? I am thinking, of course, of xAI's own MechaHitler/Grok chatbot, already live on the web and stirring up misinformation and distress.
Musk's portion consists of this superintelligent genius mumbling about how artificial intelligences might be like demons and we shouldn't "summon" them.
None of the experts here in the article seem to warn against any of this very real problems happening right now in artificial intelligence, though. I'm not sure. Maybe none of this really could've been predicted at all. Either way Musk et al aren't quite real life experts, despite being rich and (in some cases) decorated.
#ai #elonmusk #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #grok #alignment #irony #dystopia #transhumanism #technooptimism -
https://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/
This article is from 2014, quite before generative artificial intelligence became a thing. You'll find the focus very different than similar alarmist articles written after. Can't say I agree with many, if any, of the conclusions (those that are here).
Stephen Hawking, before his death (...and other things...) was quoted here as saying "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
Ugh. The presence of Elon Musk in this grouping of so-called "smartest people" warning about the dangers of misaligned artificial intelligences turned supremely ironic rather quickly, didn't it? I am thinking, of course, of xAI's own MechaHitler/Grok chatbot, already live on the web and stirring up misinformation and distress.
Musk's portion consists of this superintelligent genius mumbling about how artificial intelligences might be like demons and we shouldn't "summon" them.
None of the experts here in the article seem to warn against any of this very real problems happening right now in artificial intelligence, though. I'm not sure. Maybe none of this really could've been predicted at all. Either way Musk et al aren't quite real life experts, despite being rich and (in some cases) decorated.
#ai #elonmusk #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #grok #alignment #irony #dystopia #transhumanism #technooptimism -
https://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/
This article is from 2014, quite before generative artificial intelligence became a thing. You'll find the focus very different than similar alarmist articles written after. Can't say I agree with many, if any, of the conclusions (those that are here).
Stephen Hawking, before his death (...and other things...) was quoted here as saying "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
Ugh. The presence of Elon Musk in this grouping of so-called "smartest people" warning about the dangers of misaligned artificial intelligences turned supremely ironic rather quickly, didn't it? I am thinking, of course, of xAI's own MechaHitler/Grok chatbot, already live on the web and stirring up misinformation and distress.
Musk's portion consists of this superintelligent genius mumbling about how artificial intelligences might be like demons and we shouldn't "summon" them.
None of the experts here in the article seem to warn against any of this very real problems happening right now in artificial intelligence, though. I'm not sure. Maybe none of this really could've been predicted at all. Either way Musk et al aren't quite real life experts, despite being rich and (in some cases) decorated.
#ai #elonmusk #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #grok #alignment #irony #dystopia #transhumanism #technooptimism -
https://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/
This article is from 2014, quite before generative artificial intelligence became a thing. You'll find the focus very different than similar alarmist articles written after. Can't say I agree with many, if any, of the conclusions (those that are here).
Stephen Hawking, before his death (...and other things...) was quoted here as saying "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
Ugh. The presence of Elon Musk in this grouping of so-called "smartest people" warning about the dangers of misaligned artificial intelligences turned supremely ironic rather quickly, didn't it? I am thinking, of course, of xAI's own MechaHitler/Grok chatbot, already live on the web and stirring up misinformation and distress.
Musk's portion consists of this superintelligent genius mumbling about how artificial intelligences might be like demons and we shouldn't "summon" them.
None of the experts here in the article seem to warn against any of this very real problems happening right now in artificial intelligence, though. I'm not sure. Maybe none of this really could've been predicted at all. Either way Musk et al aren't quite real life experts, despite being rich and (in some cases) decorated.
#ai #elonmusk #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #grok #alignment #irony #dystopia #transhumanism #technooptimism -
https://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/
This article is from 2014, quite before generative artificial intelligence became a thing. You'll find the focus very different than similar alarmist articles written after. Can't say I agree with many, if any, of the conclusions (those that are here).
Stephen Hawking, before his death (...and other things...) was quoted here as saying "If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, ‘We’ll arrive in a few decades,’ would we just reply, ‘OK, call us when you get here—we’ll leave the lights on’? Probably not—but this is more or less what is happening with AI."
Ugh. The presence of Elon Musk in this grouping of so-called "smartest people" warning about the dangers of misaligned artificial intelligences turned supremely ironic rather quickly, didn't it? I am thinking, of course, of xAI's own MechaHitler/Grok chatbot, already live on the web and stirring up misinformation and distress.
Musk's portion consists of this superintelligent genius mumbling about how artificial intelligences might be like demons and we shouldn't "summon" them.
None of the experts here in the article seem to warn against any of this very real problems happening right now in artificial intelligence, though. I'm not sure. Maybe none of this really could've been predicted at all. Either way Musk et al aren't quite real life experts, despite being rich and (in some cases) decorated.
#ai #elonmusk #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #grok #alignment #irony #dystopia #transhumanism #technooptimism -
People who truly believe in freedom and technology as a multiplier of human potential are rather rare these days #technooptimism
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Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world.
These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the local economy.
Session: Communities resisting #datacentres also with Paola Ricaurte and Agustí Emperador @ecologistas
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Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world.
These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the local economy.
Session: Communities resisting #datacentres also with Paola Ricaurte and Agustí Emperador @ecologistas
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Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world.
These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the local economy.
Session: Communities resisting #datacentres also with Paola Ricaurte and Agustí Emperador @ecologistas
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Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world.
These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the local economy.
Session: Communities resisting #datacentres also with Paola Ricaurte and Agustí Emperador @ecologistas
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Aurora Gomez @tunubesecamirio urges us to leave #TechnoOptimism behind, in the discussion about big data centres with empty promises to "create jobs" and to solve the electricity and water needs. We already know that these promises are false. In reality people loose their land, ecosystems die because of lack of (good) water. We have seen this happen in many places around the world.
These data centres are generally used for extractive data business models and not rrally for the local economy.
Session: Communities resisting #datacentres also with Paola Ricaurte and Agustí Emperador @ecologistas
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Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026
The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/
Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.
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Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026
The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/
Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.
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Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026
The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/
Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.
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Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026
The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/
Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.
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Conf: “Technological Optimism in 1970s and 1980s Popular Culture: Innovation, Creativity, Prosperity, and Freedom”
Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, 15-17 April 2026
The conference programme and further information is available at its website: https://ieg-dhr.github.io/techno_optimism/
Because space is limited, we ask that those who are interested in attending register by sending a brief e-mail to [email protected] by 25. March 2026.
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This is a brilliant video by Adam Neely on #GenerativeAI in #music, that takes a sharp turn (somewhat expectedly) towards an analysis of the machinations of #TechnoOptimism, #EffectiveAccelerationism, and their undeniable connection to #Fascism. It is a long one and has a high information density but it is one of the best video essays I've seen in quite a while. If you care about music and the arts — or just knowing you fascist enemy: this one is for you.
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This is a brilliant video by Adam Neely on #GenerativeAI in #music, that takes a sharp turn (somewhat expectedly) towards an analysis of the machinations of #TechnoOptimism, #EffectiveAccelerationism, and their undeniable connection to #Fascism. It is a long one and has a high information density but it is one of the best video essays I've seen in quite a while. If you care about music and the arts — or just knowing you fascist enemy: this one is for you.
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This is a brilliant video by Adam Neely on #GenerativeAI in #music, that takes a sharp turn (somewhat expectedly) towards an analysis of the machinations of #TechnoOptimism, #EffectiveAccelerationism, and their undeniable connection to #Fascism. It is a long one and has a high information density but it is one of the best video essays I've seen in quite a while. If you care about music and the arts — or just knowing you fascist enemy: this one is for you.
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This is a brilliant video by Adam Neely on #GenerativeAI in #music, that takes a sharp turn (somewhat expectedly) towards an analysis of the machinations of #TechnoOptimism, #EffectiveAccelerationism, and their undeniable connection to #Fascism. It is a long one and has a high information density but it is one of the best video essays I've seen in quite a while. If you care about music and the arts — or just knowing you fascist enemy: this one is for you.
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This is a brilliant video by Adam Neely on #GenerativeAI in #music, that takes a sharp turn (somewhat expectedly) towards an analysis of the machinations of #TechnoOptimism, #EffectiveAccelerationism, and their undeniable connection to #Fascism. It is a long one and has a high information density but it is one of the best video essays I've seen in quite a while. If you care about music and the arts — or just knowing you fascist enemy: this one is for you.
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Stay in there until minute 59!
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Stay in there until minute 59!
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Stay in there until minute 59!
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Stay in there until minute 59!
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My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."
That's not optimism. That submission.
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My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."
That's not optimism. That submission.
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My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."
That's not optimism. That submission.
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My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."
That's not optimism. That submission.
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My problem with optimism, or, rather, #TechnoOptimism, is that it's always framed with the message "if you give the people who control your lives a chance, it'll all work out."
That's not optimism. That submission.
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[PODCAST] Separating AI Hope from AI Hype by #EFF “How to Fix the Internet”
https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4
One of the best podcasts I have heard to date about AI, techno-optimism, the AI hype cycle, and more. Highly recommended!
#AI #MediaLit #PodcastRecc #podcast #AIhype #hype #TechnoOptimism
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[PODCAST] Separating AI Hope from AI Hype by #EFF “How to Fix the Internet”
https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4
One of the best podcasts I have heard to date about AI, techno-optimism, the AI hype cycle, and more. Highly recommended!
#AI #MediaLit #PodcastRecc #podcast #AIhype #hype #TechnoOptimism
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[PODCAST] Separating AI Hope from AI Hype by #EFF “How to Fix the Internet”
https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4
One of the best podcasts I have heard to date about AI, techno-optimism, the AI hype cycle, and more. Highly recommended!
#AI #MediaLit #PodcastRecc #podcast #AIhype #hype #TechnoOptimism
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[PODCAST] Separating AI Hope from AI Hype by #EFF “How to Fix the Internet”
https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4
One of the best podcasts I have heard to date about AI, techno-optimism, the AI hype cycle, and more. Highly recommended!
#AI #MediaLit #PodcastRecc #podcast #AIhype #hype #TechnoOptimism
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[PODCAST] Separating AI Hope from AI Hype by #EFF “How to Fix the Internet”
https://pca.st/episode/027127a1-f699-4cfd-a501-f42256df3be4
One of the best podcasts I have heard to date about AI, techno-optimism, the AI hype cycle, and more. Highly recommended!
#AI #MediaLit #PodcastRecc #podcast #AIhype #hype #TechnoOptimism
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I’m going to try and stop scrolling and reading articles today in order to create some time for the #wisdom of this to sink in … #tech #technology #techno-optimism #venturecapital #hype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:so5r7asbd26pmnnoerksklor/post/3lik7sw3eus23 -
I’m going to try and stop scrolling and reading articles today in order to create some time for the #wisdom of this to sink in … #tech #technology #techno-optimism #venturecapital #hype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:so5r7asbd26pmnnoerksklor/post/3lik7sw3eus23 -
I’m going to try and stop scrolling and reading articles today in order to create some time for the #wisdom of this to sink in … #tech #technology #techno-optimism #venturecapital #hype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:so5r7asbd26pmnnoerksklor/post/3lik7sw3eus23 -
I’m going to try and stop scrolling and reading articles today in order to create some time for the #wisdom of this to sink in … #tech #technology #techno-optimism #venturecapital #hype
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:so5r7asbd26pmnnoerksklor/post/3lik7sw3eus23 -
🌍 Cartography of generative AI
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
#AI #extractivism #generativeAI #illustration #TechnoOptimism
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🌍 Cartography of generative AI
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
#AI #extractivism #generativeAI #illustration #TechnoOptimism
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🌍 Cartography of generative AI
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
#AI #extractivism #generativeAI #illustration #TechnoOptimism
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🌍 Cartography of generative AI
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
#AI #extractivism #generativeAI #illustration #TechnoOptimism
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🌍 Cartography of generative AI
https://cartography-of-generative-ai.net/
The popularisation of artificial intelligence (AI) has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation and mystification. At a time when these technologies seem to be consolidating, it is pertinent to map their connections with human activities and more than human territories. What set of extractions, agencies and resources allow us to converse online with a text-generating tool or to obtain images in a matter of seconds?
#AI #extractivism #generativeAI #illustration #TechnoOptimism
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“If you get its logic, it is not at all surprising that so many people on the #SiliconValley right have jumped from #techno-optimism into #fascism … Notoriously, Andreessen’s manifesto riffs on #Marinetti, a #technology obsessed #fascist.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
We need to escape the Gernsbac... -
“If you get its logic, it is not at all surprising that so many people on the #SiliconValley right have jumped from #techno-optimism into #fascism … Notoriously, Andreessen’s manifesto riffs on #Marinetti, a #technology obsessed #fascist.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
We need to escape the Gernsbac... -
“If you get its logic, it is not at all surprising that so many people on the #SiliconValley right have jumped from #techno-optimism into #fascism … Notoriously, Andreessen’s manifesto riffs on #Marinetti, a #technology obsessed #fascist.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
We need to escape the Gernsbac... -
“If you get its logic, it is not at all surprising that so many people on the #SiliconValley right have jumped from #techno-optimism into #fascism … Notoriously, Andreessen’s manifesto riffs on #Marinetti, a #technology obsessed #fascist.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
We need to escape the Gernsbac... -
“If you get its logic, it is not at all surprising that so many people on the #SiliconValley right have jumped from #techno-optimism into #fascism … Notoriously, Andreessen’s manifesto riffs on #Marinetti, a #technology obsessed #fascist.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...
We need to escape the Gernsbac... -
"The hopes of the technological optimists center on the ability of technology to remove or extend the limits to growth of population and capital. We have shown that in the world model the application of technology to apparent problems of resource depletion or pollution or food shortage has no impact on the essential problem, which is exponential growth in a finite and complex system. Our attempts to use even the most optimistic estimates of the benefits of technology in the model did not prevent the ultimate decline of population and industry, and in fact did not in any case postpone the collapse beyond the year 2100." (Meadows et al. 1972)
#TechnoOptimism -
"The hopes of the technological optimists center on the ability of technology to remove or extend the limits to growth of population and capital. We have shown that in the world model the application of technology to apparent problems of resource depletion or pollution or food shortage has no impact on the essential problem, which is exponential growth in a finite and complex system. Our attempts to use even the most optimistic estimates of the benefits of technology in the model did not prevent the ultimate decline of population and industry, and in fact did not in any case postpone the collapse beyond the year 2100." (Meadows et al. 1972)
#TechnoOptimism -
"The hopes of the technological optimists center on the ability of technology to remove or extend the limits to growth of population and capital. We have shown that in the world model the application of technology to apparent problems of resource depletion or pollution or food shortage has no impact on the essential problem, which is exponential growth in a finite and complex system. Our attempts to use even the most optimistic estimates of the benefits of technology in the model did not prevent the ultimate decline of population and industry, and in fact did not in any case postpone the collapse beyond the year 2100." (Meadows et al. 1972)
#TechnoOptimism -
"The hopes of the technological optimists center on the ability of technology to remove or extend the limits to growth of population and capital. We have shown that in the world model the application of technology to apparent problems of resource depletion or pollution or food shortage has no impact on the essential problem, which is exponential growth in a finite and complex system. Our attempts to use even the most optimistic estimates of the benefits of technology in the model did not prevent the ultimate decline of population and industry, and in fact did not in any case postpone the collapse beyond the year 2100." (Meadows et al. 1972)
#TechnoOptimism -
"The hopes of the technological optimists center on the ability of technology to remove or extend the limits to growth of population and capital. We have shown that in the world model the application of technology to apparent problems of resource depletion or pollution or food shortage has no impact on the essential problem, which is exponential growth in a finite and complex system. Our attempts to use even the most optimistic estimates of the benefits of technology in the model did not prevent the ultimate decline of population and industry, and in fact did not in any case postpone the collapse beyond the year 2100." (Meadows et al. 1972)
#TechnoOptimism -
Effective Accelerationism Is Just Technological Authoritarianism With A Smile