Ep. 123 - Technocracies of the Future
In this episode Aaron asks what’s so bad about technocracy. Bethany reacts with abject horror, and JP sits back with some popcorn to watch the fireworks. Should we accept the expertise of technocrats as preferable to democracy? Might the ideal of technocracy democratize itself? Bethany argues that technology fragments us by making expertise so specialized we can no longer take collective action, and she contends that technological advancement must be guided by wisdom. Aaron says there are benefits to a dialectical entanglement between technology and biology.
Near the end of the episode, the text Bethany is reading from is Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord.
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