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Hope in the Machine: Towards a Humanistic Technology

November 1, 2024

Today we face a choice, one that Fromm anticipated all those years ago. “We are at the crossroads:,” he wrote, “one road leads to a completely mechanized society with man as a helpless cog in the machine—if not to destruction by thermonuclear war; the other to a renaissance of humanism and hope—to a society that puts technique in the service of man's well-being.” I believe that the path of humanism and hope outlined by Fromm is our chance to rebuild the world for human beings, rather than machines. It only takes us imagining a better world and then advocating for it. 

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In Philosophy Tags Technology, Erich Fromm, Humanism, Socialism, Politics, Philosophy
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