tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post112154654561587585..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Where's the Technocriticism?Dale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-1121862217823149322005-07-20T05:23:00.000-07:002005-07-20T05:23:00.000-07:00Well--you've got a loyal reader here, Dale. I've b...Well--you've got a loyal reader here, Dale. <BR/><BR/>I've been following speculations and news about transhuman technologies for many years now and I've always found the libertarian mindset of many transhuman advocates terribly smug. Their rants where always very alienating to me even though I acknowledged the validity of the emerging technology they discussed.<BR/><BR/>At the same time I was also very alienated with those fearful people on the far left, the deep ecologists, who had simply consigned all of science and technology to a dustbin.<BR/><BR/>Ever since I was a young physics major I missed the left's old perspective on science and technology--the Wellsian perspective. The belief that if we keep our wits and use it wisely, science can be a very powerful liberating social force--that it could elimate poverty, that it could heal the sick, that it could heal the planet, that it could reveal new wonders of the universe to us and maybe even slowly give us wisdom.<BR/><BR/>I guess the atomic bomb, Minimata, Bhopal and the Silent Spring destroyed that trust and optimism, and with good reason, but I was always sad to see it go.<BR/><BR/>It seems like almost no-one thinks this way anymore. I think it's time we revisit it. But this time, we remain mindful of the mistakes we made the last time we thought this way.<BR/><BR/>Your's and other's (Worldchanging springs to mind.) perspectives were very refreshing for me to discover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com