Speaking of the system, mainly the economic system, Jon Evans writes:
> We built it ourselves, after all; it was not handed down from Mount Sinai. Maybe we can fix it so that it encourages scientists and artists and engineers to start up truly new and better things, rather than more adtech and parasitical financial instruments.
We had a major push for technocratic post-capitalist reforms. It was called Communism. Then Communism failed in various disturbing ways worth remembering, and Capitalism had its revenge by destroy-ing communist ideology post-Soviet collapse, shifting the technocratic impetus from state engineered economies to a technocratic class to impose neoliberal "reforms" upon the working class, which is now coming apart.
Ignore what I said if you don't like my napkin history lesson, but the issue I want to point to is: how can we regain confidence in technocratic solutions when (a) Communist technocracies turned into nightmares, (b) we are in the middle of the decay of neoliberal technocracies, which include (c) an ever increasing skepticism of the only real vital technocracy left, the Internet.
Just when we need some scientific policy (particularly with climate change), the very idea of technocracy has fallen into the mud.
I don't think another Ted Talk is going to do it. The rot is deep.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 10.6 ms ] thread> We built it ourselves, after all; it was not handed down from Mount Sinai. Maybe we can fix it so that it encourages scientists and artists and engineers to start up truly new and better things, rather than more adtech and parasitical financial instruments.
We had a major push for technocratic post-capitalist reforms. It was called Communism. Then Communism failed in various disturbing ways worth remembering, and Capitalism had its revenge by destroy-ing communist ideology post-Soviet collapse, shifting the technocratic impetus from state engineered economies to a technocratic class to impose neoliberal "reforms" upon the working class, which is now coming apart.
Ignore what I said if you don't like my napkin history lesson, but the issue I want to point to is: how can we regain confidence in technocratic solutions when (a) Communist technocracies turned into nightmares, (b) we are in the middle of the decay of neoliberal technocracies, which include (c) an ever increasing skepticism of the only real vital technocracy left, the Internet.
Just when we need some scientific policy (particularly with climate change), the very idea of technocracy has fallen into the mud.
I don't think another Ted Talk is going to do it. The rot is deep.
Edited for grammar.