RLG211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Optical Fiber, Cyborg, Transhumanism
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Silicon valley is a major driver of contemporary culture. And it is a truly odd place in many ways: google offices. They view themselves as making the world a better and more perfect place. Many believe that absolute transparency of information will perfect society. Others think that tech companies should take over roles that now belong to government-as with the construction of the new google city of the future in downtown toronto. Technological utopianism (or techno-utopianism): the idea that new technology can bring about a more perfect society. Mark zuckerberg: facebook could bring world peace and global understanding. Thomas more coined the word in his 1516 book. It means no place , although it sounds like. Ideas about utopia have been with us ever since. And these ideas have been closely related to ideas about new technologies: jetsons, hetero- nuclear family utterly techno used. Silicon valley culture is just the latest in this long line of techno-utopia.
