by Luis I. Prádanos (Iñaki) 

The dominant ideology assumes that technology is key to resolving social and ecological problems. Nevertheless, said belief ignores that the dominant cultural paradigm confuses destruction for progress. The result of pouring all human creativity into making technology more efficient in a destructive system is that the system becomes more efficient at increasing inequality and accelerating species extinction. Technology would only be useful to resolve socioecological problems if it were to operate within a different cultural paradigm (a regenerative one) that is not addicted to growth, to constant accumulation and expansion. Techno-optimism doesn’t question the dominant logic.