Technological Utopianism (Definition)"Technological utopianism derived from the belief in technology -- conceived as more than tools and machines alone -- as the means of achieving a 'perfect' society in the near future. Such a society, moreover, would not only be the culmination of the introduction of new tools and machines; it would also be modeled on those tools and machines in its institutions, values and culture...More clearly, more methodically and more intensely than any other group, the technological utopians espoused positions that a growing number (even a majority) of Americans during these 50 years were coming to take for granted, or wanted to: the belief in the inevitability of progress and the belief that progress was precisely technological progress." --Howard P. Segal, "The Technological Utopians", in Joseph J. Corn (Ed.), Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology and The American Future (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986).
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