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Can We Resist the Appeal of Technological Utopias?

May 11, 2025

The Promethean passions binding modern humanity—the desire for unbridled power and mastery of the natural world—are colliding with political and environmental constraints. As we enter the artificial intelligence era, is there actually a greater wisdom in spurning the lofty visions of technological utopias and acknowledging the tragic frailty and precarity of earthly existence?

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