1/ There's something I've been trying to put into words but I don't know how yet. Maybe some folks on here (STS people?) can help me?
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2/ I keep running into disparate circles of people all motivated to produce various technocratic solutions to problems. I'm prone to doing this in narrow contexts, but it really seems to be a broad and fast-growing impulse at much larger levels of socio-technical organization.
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3/ The thing is, I don't know how to argue or even caution against it at this point. The reason it's such an accessible idea is because we live in a time of technological wonder. So the actual null feels like "why can't technology solve this?" rather than "can technology help?"
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4/ Technocratic solutions now are dramatically different than they would even 50 years ago — the capabilities are, truly, Clarke-ian magic. So, most people do think tech is great. Experts identify problems... ...but they're also not most people, definitionally.
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5/ TLDR: I'm generally wary of technocratic solutions because I think this remarkable technological capacity to be misleading relative to the size and staggering complexity of the problems people want to solve. But that's hard to communicate, let alone demonstrate.
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Replying to @generativist
On the off chance you aren’t familiar, I think you may find the work of people like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State … of interest on these ideas.
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Literally bought it last week for this exact reason :)
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