Otis Scops aka Crash Course<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NatureMC</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.well.com/@ianb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ianb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timnitGebru</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>emilymbender</span></a></span> <br>Techno-optimism is not only something that we should not "believe in" (as if it were a religion!), in my opinion it is the driver of most of the problems and our total predicament we are facing.</p><p>This was already clearly described by the philosophers Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford over 60 years ago.<br>In my book <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrashCourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrashCourse</span></a> (which is downloadable for free) I explain how they come to their conclusions.<br>I strongly promote that we wean of of our addiction to technology and their direct cousins - capitalism and extractivism -.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Technoloy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technoloy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>addiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collapse</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TalkCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TalkCollapse</span></a></p>