They include having the inner courage and conviction to think and feel clearly, regaining our bearings and understanding the broader reality of which we are part.
I take the view that the most vital responses to such circumstances are neither external nor technological. One need not dig very far into the current sense of frustration and malaise afflicting political systems to acknowledge that there can only be one ‘winner’ in humanity’s self-chosen ‘collision course’ with the planet. What cannot be overlooked for much longer is the way that humanity has manoeuvred itself into a fateful collision with the planetary systems upon which it depends entirely for sustenance and renewal. Politicians are prominent among those who seem wedded to this view. But taking these as evidence of overall human improvement requires a kind of mental gymnastics undertaken only by the courageous or the hopelessly misguided. That’s not to say that there have been no such improvements. Many expectations of human improvement that were supposed to flow from new knowledge, advances in human organisation and successive waves of technical innovation have proved hollow or ambiguous. , * Web Text version of each JFS paper here is for easy reading purpose only, for the valid and published context of each article, please refer to the PDF version.ĭuring recent decades the ‘myth of progress’ lost credibility and it’s not hard to see why. Slaughter, Foresight International, PO Box 793, Indooroopilly, Queensland 4068, Australia. Journal of Futures Studies, June 2020, 24(4): 99–102 Confronting a High-Tech Nightmare: A Review of Zuboff’s the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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