Principles
Bernard Gendron, a professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, defines the four principles of modern technological utopians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as follows:
- We are presently undergoing a (post-industrial) revolution in technology;
- In the post-industrial age, technological growth will be sustained (at least);
- In the post-industrial age, technological growth will lead to the end of economic scarcity;
- The elimination of economic scarcity will lead to the elimination of every major social evil.
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