The most interesting part of this article, to me, was to see the author struggling with their own ideological commitment to tech utopianism (or technological so

The most interesting part of this article, to me, was to see the author struggling with their own ideological commitment to tech utopianism (or technological solutionism or whatever you want to call it) in such an open way. An article full of examples and discussion of why her beliefs were misguided, but then doubling down on them at the end. It's a very human thing to do but it's still a bit shocking to see someone lay it out so plainly: "We are constantly promised X and every time we get Y instead. In fact, our society basically guarantees Y will happen. Please promise me X again without changing anything and maybe this time Y won't happen because ... wanting it?" We tech people will really build up some twisted logic and ignore a lot of evidence to avoid acknowledging social problems and avoid any suggestion of hard work needed in that arena won't we?