11 Facts About Technological utopianism

Technological utopianism is any ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal.

Technological utopianism is often connected with other discourses presenting technologies as agents of social and cultural change, such as technological determinism or media imaginaries.

Cultural critic Imre Szeman argues technological utopianism is an irrational social narrative because there is no evidence to support it.

Technological utopianism concludes that it shows the extent to which modern societies place faith in narratives of progress and technology overcoming things, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Technological utopianism argued that advances in science helped delegitimize the rule of kings and the power of the Christian Church.

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Movement of techno-Technological utopianism began to flourish again in the dot-com culture of the 1990s, particularly in the West Coast of the United States, especially based around Silicon Valley.

Similar forms of "digital Technological utopianism" has often entered in the political messages of party and social movements that point to the Web or more broadly to new media as harbingers of political and social change.

However, techno-Technological utopianism disproportionately attracted adherents from the libertarian right end of the political spectrum.

Prominent "oracles" of techno-Technological utopianism included George Gilder and Kevin Kelly, an editor of Wired who published several books.

Cyber-Technological utopianism, first coined by Evgeny Morozov, is another manifestation of this, in particular in relation to the Internet and social networking.

Critics claim that techno-Technological utopianism's identification of social progress with scientific progress is a form of positivism and scientism.