{"id":62206,"date":"2022-03-14T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62206"},"modified":"2022-03-14T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:06:27","slug":"the-techno-fix-wont-save-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62206","title":{"rendered":"The Techno-Fix Won\u2019t Save Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s Note: Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of any culture, and one of the central authorities in the dominant, globalizing culture is that technological progress is an unmitigated good. We call this \u201cthe lie of the techno-fix.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The lie of the techno-fix is extremely convincing, with good reason. The propaganda promoting this idea is incessant and nearly subliminal, with billions of dollars pouring out of non-profit offices, New York PR firms, and Hollywood production companies annually to inculcate young people into the cult of technology. In policy, technology is rarely (if ever) subjected to any democratic controls; if it can be profitably made, it will be. And damn the consequences. There is money to be made.
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Critics of technology and the techno-elite, such as Lewis Mumford, Rachel Carson, Langdon Winner, Derrick Jensen, and many others, have spoken out for decades on these issues. Technological \u201cdevelopment,\u201d they warn us, is perhaps better understood as technological \u201cescalation,\u201d since modern industrial technologies typically represent a war on the planet and the poor.<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/em>n this article, Helena Norberg-Hodge asks us to consider what values are important to us: progress, or well-being? Breakneck speed, or balance? She articulates a vision of technology as subordinate to ecology and non-human and human communities alike based on her experiences in the remote Himalayan region of Ladakh.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The most recent topic explored by the thinkers and activists who make up the Great Transition Network was \u201cTechnology and the Future\u201d. As writer after writer posted their thoughts, it was heartening to see that almost all recognize that\u00a0technology cannot provide real solutions<\/a>\u00a0to the many crises we face. I was also happy that\u00a0Professor William Robinson<\/a>, author of a number of books on the global economy, highlighted the clear connection between computer technologies and the further entrenchment of globalization today.<\/p>\n

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The Techno-Fix Won\u2019t Save Us Editor\u2019s Note: Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of any culture, and one of the central authorities in the dominant, globalizing culture is that technological progress is an unmitigated good. We call this \u201cthe lie of the techno-fix.\u201d The lie of the techno-fix is extremely convincing, with good reason. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[67,32765,341,32764,14112,32766,786],"class_list":["post-62206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-beliefs","tag-deep-green-resistance","tag-future","tag-great-transition-network","tag-helena-norberg-hodge","tag-techno-fixes","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62206\/revisions\/62207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}