Will technological advancements save us from ourselves?

Technoutopianism is the belief that technological advancements will result in the rapid eradication of societal evils such as poverty, discrimination, sickness, political apathy, and environmental degradation. In Technoutopianism, we will offer a book-length critical investigation of this deeply held faith in technology to save us from our own worst behavior.

This belief has become one of the principal narratives organizing our view of the past, present, and future. It is a near universal outlook on the world, cutting across political standpoints and ideological perspectives, as important to fascists as to socialists. And it is a belief which has grown ever stronger, despite evidence of the role of technology in animating and amplifying all manner of social ills and dysfunction, and the repeated failure of technology to fulfill its utopian promise.