Utopia Through Professionalism?
Can modernity and professionalism create a Utopia? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is…until it isn’t! (Or is it?)
I look at the title I chose and go “Hmm.” Still, it all makes a bit of sense to me, after I elaborate on what Utopia entails.
So let’s have a look at some possible outcomes of a Utopian-capable intelligence. Let’s start by assuming a sort of high-tech Utopia, shall we? How might that work?
Here’s an easy theoretical stepping stone to technological Utopia: In the next [insert number here] years we’ll all have high-speed internet, and we’ll advance culturally and yadda yadda yadda, which means the internet as we know it, with so many of its shortcomings, will go away.
What we used to call “the internet” and “high-tech” will become a thing from another time, a thing from the Stone Age, and technological advancement and cultural advancement will go hand-in-hand, creating a scenario basically like world peace.
That’s not exactly the scenario I have in mind regarding a Utopian future, but it’s a plausible one for some, especially if one doesn’t stop to think about it.
In terms of logic, saying that technology will save us because it’s convenient is a bit like saying of a politician, “He kept us out of war…,” as if that’d be some deeply…