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Technolgical Utopia. Don’t worry...be happy!. Technological Utopia. Not an assessment, but a demand for change. present current conditions as problems requiring a (human-constructed) solution present technologies as that solution fail to discuss other solutions or downside to proposed Utopia
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Technolgical Utopia Don’t worry...be happy!
Technological Utopia Not an assessment, but a demand for change • present current conditions as problems requiring a (human-constructed) solution • present technologies as that solution • fail to discuss other solutions or downside to proposed Utopia • dismissive of possible problems, implications, effects of technology
Utopia Framework • Simple, easy-to-grasp • Reductionist à all social ills are amenable to human solution • Either - project existing values and social order, or • Reverse existing values, promote new order • Either way à an ideological statement
Development • Develop in specific social context -- socially organized myths • specific social aims/not always recognized, intended • views of progressive social change
Technological Utopia • Universal (or near universal) benefits for all who participate • Broad scale and scope of benefits, not just a specific problem • Usually long-term future
Anti-Utopia (Dystopia) • bleak • loss of current values/worst magnified • humans lose control