John Stewart (Twitter)What are ways to engage students in conversation around “salvation through technology.” #domains19
— Keegan Long-Wheeler (@KeeganSLW) June 10, 2019
One example I’ve heard: “No worries about our planet with plans for space exploration.”There's a long history of using tech and rhetoric around tech as a way out of Malthusian limits on resources. Tech as salvation has been a dominant way of thinking, but needs to be challenged/critiqued. #Domains19
— John Stewart (@JohnStewartPhD) June 10, 2019
I also suspect that Cesar Hidalgo’s text Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies may provide a strong clue with some details. To some extent I think we’ve generally reached the Shannon limit for how much information we can pour into a single brain. We now need to rely on distributed and parallel networking among people to proceed forward.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing these connections. 🙂