Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix

Re:Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix by tim333 on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:46AM (#25823579)

Technosolutionism doesn't seem to have a dictionary definition but the author seems to use if for crap tech fixes like apps for covid rather than good tech fixes like masks and vaccines. If that's the case then technosolutionism is trivially not the fix by definition.

On the other hand good tech advances mostly are the answer to pandemic problems like the plague, smallpox etc.

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Re:Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix by davidivadavid on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:37PM (#25824232)

There's a whole cottage industry of journalism based on criticism of "technology" that's predicated on the idea that "technology" == Silicon-Valley-based software/apps.

Of course, that has the downside of overlooking the fact that most problems are actually solved by technology, technology being what humans create to solve their problems.

Somehow, mRNA vaccines, which are to a large extent more high tech than most CRUD software developed in SV, isn't considered "technology".

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Re:Technosolutionism Isn’t the Fix by bonoboTP on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:07PM (#25824626)

I think it's specifically "tech", the shortened form, that refers to websites and apps in today's usage. "Technology", the full word includes medical advances, aerospace, innovative construction materials, solar panels, whatever.

What really drives me up the wall is when people call a library or a software framework or platform "a technology" (countable noun) in software. Like "Silverlight technology". I'm like "no, it's still a minor facet of information technology or computing technology, it's not a technology on its own".

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