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

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  There is no material problem, whether created by nature or by technology, that cannot be solved with more technology.

  Andreessen says there is no material problem, from nature or from technology, that cannot be solved with more technology. Thiel says technological utopianism is a temptation to resist, because technology has no momentum or will of its own and guarantees nothing. These are opposite readings of what technology is owed in advance.

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• A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation. KJKeyu Jin13 Aug 2025
• Technological determinism is only believable low down the tech tree; higher up we already choose which paths not to take. MNMichael Nielsen7 Apr 2026
• Technological progress does not deliver the most important technologies first; what people choose to work on decides what exists. JTJacob Trefethen2 Feb 2024
• A rapidly improving technology whose output is intelligence is destined to make violent contact with a modern sensibility that prizes human intellect and often equates it with purpose, dignity, and self-worth. DTDerek Thompson15 Oct 2026
• We are in a deadly race between politics and technology; the future will be much better or much worse, and it is still open. PTPeter Thiel13 Apr 2009

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