Continuity University offers a more sceptic view, not towards technology itself, but to a specific attitude that most of us [1] adopt on technology these days: Tech-optimism. Especially in positions like Transhumanism and Singularitarianism an outspoken tech-optimism and confidence with exponential technological progress is a common convention. Their feed provides us with great inventions and attractive prospects that should improve our future lives – often in a way far beyond therapeutic purposes. Continuity University calls thinkers, philosophers, artists, scientists, students and anyone who entertains reasonable doubt towards alleged feasibility and solely positive impacts of technological practice on humanity and environment. It is a proof fact that with every invention the invention of it's malfunction and accident comes along too (Paul Virilio, 2005). Therefore, the question is not only what we should do, but with no less urgency: How should we think and talk about tech in consideration of that? CU later… investigator
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1 http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/04/17/us-views-of-technology-and-the-future/
Virilio, Paul (2005). The Original Accident (L'accident originel), Cambridge: Polity, 2007, p. 10.
