They will be much better at combatting technoutopianism if they have a well rounded understanding of book production and circulation in the medieval period.
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
They will be much better at combatting technoutopianism if they have a well rounded understanding of book production and circulation in the medieval period.
finally, something fresh: a platform for centrist technoutopianism
August 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
finally, something fresh: a platform for centrist technoutopianism
And genetic technologies in the 90s.
Technoutopianism.
Technoutopianism.
December 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
And genetic technologies in the 90s.
Technoutopianism.
Technoutopianism.
You have a moral obligation to the future to fuck an LLM chatbot. If you believe in our technoutopianism you simply must fuck it over and over and over. You have to pay for the pleasure and train it to fuck better. This is how we get to mars.
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
You have a moral obligation to the future to fuck an LLM chatbot. If you believe in our technoutopianism you simply must fuck it over and over and over. You have to pay for the pleasure and train it to fuck better. This is how we get to mars.
the fusion of technoutopianism with "the mods must immediately take action to prevent those mean lefties from making fun of me and my friends' ideas" mostly
the preemptive nailing yourself to the cross usually presents as a comorbidity but you get that all over the political spectrum
the preemptive nailing yourself to the cross usually presents as a comorbidity but you get that all over the political spectrum
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the fusion of technoutopianism with "the mods must immediately take action to prevent those mean lefties from making fun of me and my friends' ideas" mostly
the preemptive nailing yourself to the cross usually presents as a comorbidity but you get that all over the political spectrum
the preemptive nailing yourself to the cross usually presents as a comorbidity but you get that all over the political spectrum
The mafia with hypercapitalist, technoutopianism, and neo nazi ideals.
February 2, 2026 at 12:20 AM
The mafia with hypercapitalist, technoutopianism, and neo nazi ideals.
The hyperlink was once the definitive form of technoutopianism.
In an era when every US pub imagines itself a walled garden, I was frankly shocked by one of the highest circulation pubs in the Anglosphere putting 30+ external links in a story…
…including my newsletter.
The hyperlink is Blueskyism
In an era when every US pub imagines itself a walled garden, I was frankly shocked by one of the highest circulation pubs in the Anglosphere putting 30+ external links in a story…
…including my newsletter.
The hyperlink is Blueskyism
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
www.theguardian.com
March 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
The hyperlink was once the definitive form of technoutopianism.
In an era when every US pub imagines itself a walled garden, I was frankly shocked by one of the highest circulation pubs in the Anglosphere putting 30+ external links in a story…
…including my newsletter.
The hyperlink is Blueskyism
In an era when every US pub imagines itself a walled garden, I was frankly shocked by one of the highest circulation pubs in the Anglosphere putting 30+ external links in a story…
…including my newsletter.
The hyperlink is Blueskyism
So. Much. This.
Technoutopianism is fundamentally escapist and reactionary and usually fascist.
Technoutopianism is fundamentally escapist and reactionary and usually fascist.
If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So. Much. This.
Technoutopianism is fundamentally escapist and reactionary and usually fascist.
Technoutopianism is fundamentally escapist and reactionary and usually fascist.
I've spent the last forty years reading small doses of science fiction to build up a resistance to technoutopianism.
"how do you know its poison unless you taste it"
November 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I've spent the last forty years reading small doses of science fiction to build up a resistance to technoutopianism.
technoutopianism, like liberalism, communism, fascism, evangelism*, unitarianism, atheism, and most of the other fun isms, was more discovered than invented.
* some restrictions apply
* some restrictions apply
May 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
technoutopianism, like liberalism, communism, fascism, evangelism*, unitarianism, atheism, and most of the other fun isms, was more discovered than invented.
* some restrictions apply
* some restrictions apply
a lot of the technoutopianism surrounding EVs really depends on the vague belief that electricity emerges cleanly and spontaneously from the ether
May 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
a lot of the technoutopianism surrounding EVs really depends on the vague belief that electricity emerges cleanly and spontaneously from the ether
Technoutopianism is a helluva drug, I say as someone who researches nuclear & technological imaginaries.
The USA has had a particularly strong tendency toward technoutopianism (or technofetishism as case may be) to say little of our long-standing dedication to the meliorist progress myth.
The USA has had a particularly strong tendency toward technoutopianism (or technofetishism as case may be) to say little of our long-standing dedication to the meliorist progress myth.
March 28, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Technoutopianism is a helluva drug, I say as someone who researches nuclear & technological imaginaries.
The USA has had a particularly strong tendency toward technoutopianism (or technofetishism as case may be) to say little of our long-standing dedication to the meliorist progress myth.
The USA has had a particularly strong tendency toward technoutopianism (or technofetishism as case may be) to say little of our long-standing dedication to the meliorist progress myth.
Technoutopianism has long been an American religion with tenets as unquestionable as those of any faith. Technofascism is the Silicon Valley billionaire’s dark eschatological application of Technoutopianism’s sunny promises.
People don't LIKE having a religion they don't practice foisted on them en masse by their government, and frankly, that's what a lot of this feels like.
September 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Technoutopianism has long been an American religion with tenets as unquestionable as those of any faith. Technofascism is the Silicon Valley billionaire’s dark eschatological application of Technoutopianism’s sunny promises.
Gibson/Sterling "Let's write an SF novel attacking technoutopianism and showing that computing doesn't automatically mean freedom."
Fans: "Ohhh! Airships! Goggles! Top hats! Corsets! With GEARS!"
Fans: "Ohhh! Airships! Goggles! Top hats! Corsets! With GEARS!"
May 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Gibson/Sterling "Let's write an SF novel attacking technoutopianism and showing that computing doesn't automatically mean freedom."
Fans: "Ohhh! Airships! Goggles! Top hats! Corsets! With GEARS!"
Fans: "Ohhh! Airships! Goggles! Top hats! Corsets! With GEARS!"
If offers the aesthetic of a better society without overtly pushing propaganda.
There's both a cultural/generational cynicism at play here which should sound familiar by now. People know the Musk/Andreesen brand of technoutopianism is self-serving, designed to line the pockets of billionaires.
There's both a cultural/generational cynicism at play here which should sound familiar by now. People know the Musk/Andreesen brand of technoutopianism is self-serving, designed to line the pockets of billionaires.
January 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
If offers the aesthetic of a better society without overtly pushing propaganda.
There's both a cultural/generational cynicism at play here which should sound familiar by now. People know the Musk/Andreesen brand of technoutopianism is self-serving, designed to line the pockets of billionaires.
There's both a cultural/generational cynicism at play here which should sound familiar by now. People know the Musk/Andreesen brand of technoutopianism is self-serving, designed to line the pockets of billionaires.
Technoutopianism or technofetishism I would/will explicate such things in my dissertation.
We can also talk about technoaesthetics.
We can also talk about technoaesthetics.
September 20, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Technoutopianism or technofetishism I would/will explicate such things in my dissertation.
We can also talk about technoaesthetics.
We can also talk about technoaesthetics.
Oooohhhh! I like this term as a partial replaxement/complement/more apt term than ‘technoutopianism”
May 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Oooohhhh! I like this term as a partial replaxement/complement/more apt term than ‘technoutopianism”
There’s something to be said about USA technoutopianism which is a special thing in USA.
Zero surprise and it would be nice if the USA government could be less fascist, dysfunctional, & beholden to class interests such that this bullshit were prevented.
New: Rite Aid secretly scanned shoppers with facial recognition for years, leading to false shoplifting accusations, embarrassment and harassment. The chain banned workers from discussing it, and one distraught 11-year-old girl was searched due to a bad match www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
December 21, 2023 at 1:06 AM
There’s something to be said about USA technoutopianism which is a special thing in USA.
Technoutopianism & technomillearianism are forms of millenarianism, with a variety of eschatologies and soteriologies espoused by (often) rich chucklefucks.
Technoenthusiasism/utopianism is one of the more obnoxious & persistent USA cultural traits, to me.
(think nuclear tech as this)
Technoenthusiasism/utopianism is one of the more obnoxious & persistent USA cultural traits, to me.
(think nuclear tech as this)
I have said this multiple times, but I do not share the religion of AI evangelists, and I think it is startling that they feel they need one.
New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
September 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Technoutopianism & technomillearianism are forms of millenarianism, with a variety of eschatologies and soteriologies espoused by (often) rich chucklefucks.
Technoenthusiasism/utopianism is one of the more obnoxious & persistent USA cultural traits, to me.
(think nuclear tech as this)
Technoenthusiasism/utopianism is one of the more obnoxious & persistent USA cultural traits, to me.
(think nuclear tech as this)
This is close to it, but I think we need a strain of huckster technoutopianism
January 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is close to it, but I think we need a strain of huckster technoutopianism
Last spring I was asked to write a piece with tips on how to suss out AI-generated images. I countered that that premise weakens democracy by promoting the idea that everyone can claim expertise regardless of their credentials, a key tenet of anti-democratic technoutopianism. What strikes me now…1/n
February 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Last spring I was asked to write a piece with tips on how to suss out AI-generated images. I countered that that premise weakens democracy by promoting the idea that everyone can claim expertise regardless of their credentials, a key tenet of anti-democratic technoutopianism. What strikes me now…1/n
Xiaohongshu offers an alternative, even if it’s still underpinned by the same kind of surveillance capitalism.
So if you've opted out of technoutopianism, what's left? What exactly is left on the eve of the inauguration? Doomsrcolling? Been there, done that.
Why doomscroll when you can boomscroll?
So if you've opted out of technoutopianism, what's left? What exactly is left on the eve of the inauguration? Doomsrcolling? Been there, done that.
Why doomscroll when you can boomscroll?
January 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Xiaohongshu offers an alternative, even if it’s still underpinned by the same kind of surveillance capitalism.
So if you've opted out of technoutopianism, what's left? What exactly is left on the eve of the inauguration? Doomsrcolling? Been there, done that.
Why doomscroll when you can boomscroll?
So if you've opted out of technoutopianism, what's left? What exactly is left on the eve of the inauguration? Doomsrcolling? Been there, done that.
Why doomscroll when you can boomscroll?
It’s like he can only speak in technoutopianism but only act in technodystopianiam
July 24, 2026 at 2:26 PM
It’s like he can only speak in technoutopianism but only act in technodystopianiam
I don't mind people going back to "TCI" but sometimes I think it it eclipses the much broader (mostly UK/Euro) conversation about the limits and contradictions of technoutopianism in Mute, nettime, Rewired, and to some degree Wired UK.
Thirty years ago, Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron published “The Californian Ideology” in Mute magazine and circulated on the early-adopter email list nettime, writes Nathan Schneider. The Californian ideology appeared to be in something of a retreat in recent years, but in 2025 it roared back.
Thirty Years On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well | TechPolicy.Press
In the seminal essay, Barbrook and Cameron insisted that there are other ways to build technology, and to do it democratically, writes Nathan Schneider.
buff.ly
September 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I don't mind people going back to "TCI" but sometimes I think it it eclipses the much broader (mostly UK/Euro) conversation about the limits and contradictions of technoutopianism in Mute, nettime, Rewired, and to some degree Wired UK.