Technopolyism

[cosmictraveler]

75 percent of the world has no electricity. 80 percent of the world has no potable water. So what does this say to those people?

 

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75 percent of the world has no electricity. 80 percent of the world has no potable water. So what does this say to those people?

"if the world economy collapses, life still goes on" I guess

 

[lightgigantic]

A good point. Whether, in the future, untold billions will continue to live and die without ever seeing a computer remains to be seen. Perhaps technology isn't the omnipotent deity you imagine it to be, then.

(On the other hand, one could very reasonably argue that it's the computers in New York and Tokyo that are controlling grain production for all but the most self-reliant of farmers.)

basically it is the people in power who make decisions - for instance if society at large is labouring profusely under technopolyist ideals (IOW if the academic community is strongly possessed of this "faith") then the belief will filter down through the social pyramid