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Technological utopianism is a temptation to resist: technology has no momentum or will of its own and guarantees nothing.

Drawn from what Peter Thiel said

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What Peter Thiel actually said

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    Peter Thiel 13 Apr 2009

    The future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism — the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can ignore the terrible arc of the political in our world.

    The Education of a Libertariancato-unbound.org

First recorded here 13 Apr 2009 · How quotes work

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