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Techtopia. What it is & Why It’s Important
We humans have some fairly common modern day beliefs about our ancestors. New evidence is reshaping our history constantly. One aspect is how we want to organise our cities, towns and communities. We’re exploring what seems like new ideas a lot lately. But often they’ve been tried before.
In this article I explore the idea of techtopia, starting first with the idea of utopia because as always, looking backwards, while seemingly boring, is the only way to look forwards.
Starting With Utopia
One fascinating aspect of modern humans, Homo Sapiens, is how we’ve constantly been exploring ways to evolve our societies. This has been going on ever since we started singing songs and telling lame jokes and stories around a fire a few hundred thousand years ago.
That’s about when we realized hanging out together was much more fun than wandering around alone and being eaten by a large predator. We also adopted technologies from our predecessor species and figured out that too, helped us live a bit longer too.
Humans cannot survive without technology. Even though most technologies can be used for rather nasty things. Like killing one another. Which is a decidedly nasty thing to do.
