It’s So Over, We’re So Back: Doomer Techno-Optimism - American Affairs Journal

It’s So Over, We’re So Back: Doomer Techno-Optimism - American Affairs Journal

Prophets and their warnings arise in times of peril, and the arrival of the doomer techno-optimist discourse is fortunate. Simply put, we needed the wake-up call. Yet, if the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one, then the second step is actually doing something about it. To that end, what is needed from the next phase of contributions to this discussion are proposals to reboot science and generate breakthroughs, policies to c…