In our last post, Preach (Tech) Brother, the concern was expressed that those behind the Techno-Optimist ‘Manifesto’ (or TOM) might use their significant political, economic and social/cultural clout  to push this dubious belief system onto others. Well now there’s a postscript: a subsequent edict [...]

If the Techno-Optimist Manifesto was an undergraduate term paper in the social sciences, it would fail. When it comes to lazy thinking and writing, examples abound: Sweeping statements (‘Technology is the ultimate open society’/ ‘our present society has been subjected to a mass demoralization [...]