By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Explore the diminishing marginal returns of both World’s Fairs and technology in general, and consider what’s next as dreams of a high-tech utopia go the way of the animatronic dinosaurs.
By Corporate Watch Staff, Corporate Watch
"Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade"
By Carlos Álvarez Pereira , Great Transition Initiative
Instead of abiding by the separatist framing of Modernity, we should start repairing artificially broken interdependencies, learn the re-emergence of relationships, and regenerate ecosystems, and in that way give renewed meaning to what we already know.
By Brian Tokar, Great Transition Initiative
Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are more typically the outcome of particular social and economic arrangements.
By Brian Tokar, Local Futures
Since the heyday of technological determinism in the 1960s, many authors have written eloquently about how developments in technology are more typically the outcome of particular social and economic arrangements.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
The best response to this constellation of emergencies is to actively shrink the technosphere and radically reduce economic growth and energy spending. Our political class can’t imagine such a conversation.
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
If all goes well, by the end of this episode, you’ll feel inspired to shut down your electronic devices, stow your earbuds, and go outside to scan the skies, dig in the dirt, watch the wildlife, or find some other healthy way to pay attention to the natural world.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
No, life has not yet been found on Mars, but imagine waking up to that headline. How would you react? What would this stir for you?
By Lynne Davis, Agroecology Now!
Civilisations have tried to dominate chaos with order for centuries, in a false dichotomy of biblical proportions. Greater diversity wants to exist. Perhaps our role is not to impose order, but to steward complexity.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Today our situation calls to mind the myth of Icarus as much as that of Prometheus. When will the cycle end? Will it be when we finally get the technology right? Or when nature says, ‘Enough’?
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
What if we actually planned to reduce energy usage significantly while revamping the economy to promote happiness and well-being? Then it would be far easier to replace our remaining energy usage with renewable sources.
By Alf Hornborg, Uneven Earth
A better way to define technology is to acknowledge that it is a global social phenomenon and a moral and political question rather than simply one of engineering.