I suspect that the answer lies somewhere between Rotenstreich’s authoritarian view on technology and politics—that any change in the direction of technology must be accompanied by a change in the direction of society—and an internalized belief in the dominionist mindset that underscores American culture. Effective altruism is a political gift to the wealthy, packaged absolution that gives them moral permission to extract as much as they want. It is also perilously close to the edge of the cliff of fascism.

Lecture by author, social theorist, and environmentalist Murray Bookchin titled “The Ecology Movement: Utopia or Technocracy?” delivered as part of the 1978 Towards Tomorrow event at the University of Massachusetts. Bookchin talks about the current and future state of the ecology movement. He defines the ecology movement as another name for technology and states that the movement is losing its perspective of the word “utopia.”

The slow cancellation of the future is finally itself undergoing cancellation, disappearing from view. This formerly all-pervasive cultural mood has been robbed of its soporific power by the recent intrusion of queasy possibility, the reminder that, as the old song says, anything could happen and it could be right now.

Can we predict the future of digital technologies? How does the digital shape who we are? Canadian-American author William Gibson, associated with coining the term “cyberspace”, and Fenwick McKelvey, Internet Researcher and Concordia Professor (Department of Communication Studies) explore the complex relationship between digital technologies and our identity.

Bill, a photographer, is trapped in an alternative now as imagined in the past, in this adaptation of William Gibson’s short story, ‘The Gernsback Continuum’.

Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention.

We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace.

Set against some of the biggest sci-fi franchises of the last five years, many of which imagine the future as a wreckage in which the strong prey relentlessly upon the weak, “Star Trek”…