[Editor’s Note: This is week ten of the From the Garden to the City Blog Tour]
Dyer’s after ‘technicism’ in chapter 10 of his marvelous book, which he defines as the belief that “technology will one day solve all our problems.” It’s a careful definition, oriented not toward the things themselves but those who use them. Dyer’s appropriately wary of the ideology, likening it to an alternative form of religion. It’s got its savior (the stuff itself), it’s prophets (commercials), and the future hope that technology will bring about that ever elusive utopia we’ve all been hanging around for.
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