Technological Futurism.
Joseph J. Corn,Imagining Tomorrow(1986):
As an ideology, a powerful system of rhetoric and belief, technological futurism seems to have functioned in American culture over the last hundred years much in the same way that Karl Marx saw religion functioning in Europe at an earlier time: as an opiate of the masses. In this formulation, expectations of a halcyon future brought forth by technology have had an anesthetic effect. The ability to deal with the social and political dimensions of a problem has been dulled by the euphoric solutions proferred by technological utopians, (p.227).
As an ideology, a powerful system of rhetoric and belief, technological futurism seems to have functioned in American culture over the last hundred years much in the same way that Karl Marx saw religion functioning in Europe at an earlier time: as an opiate of the masses. In this formulation, expectations of a halcyon future brought forth by technology have had an anesthetic effect. The ability to deal with the social and political dimensions of a problem has been dulled by the euphoric solutions proferred by technological utopians, (p.227).
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