A techno-pessimist manifesto

Techno-optimism is framed as a treatable condition, and technological progress is presented as insufficient to secure social order. Johannesburg and Kinshasa are described as having the same technology as Palo Alto and Berkeley, yet depending on resources they cannot produce, which the text calls a very fragile system. Quoting Marc Andreessen's techno-optimist manifesto, the text contrasts his rising curve of technology with a falling curve of human spirit, or thymos, which it links to a decline in order.