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The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 1: Fish in Water

Industrial civilization has become a victim of its own success: it has solved the problems of daily existence so thoroughly, and with such finesse, that the solutions and even the problems fade from our collective memory.

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 1: Fish in Water

Industrial civilization has become a victim of its own success: it has solved the problems of daily existence so thoroughly, and with such finesse, that the solutions and even the problems fade from our collective memory.

https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/thm-ch1-fish-in-water

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). I write about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Former tech founder.

Thanks for this!  Bookmarking to read later this evening 

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If you went to a slum in Lagos, Lima, Karachi or Manila, how would you make the case for this argument to a malnourished child or homeless person dying from treatment-resistant tuberculosis? 
How would you make this argument to an Indian subsistence farmer kicked off their land after going in debt to a corporation? 
Are the billions of people living in abject poverty just inevitable casualties of progress?