"Tech-bros" in politics and technological optimism as a social force
Read and listen to Johan Fredrikzon, postdoctoral researcher at the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment and visiting researcher at Stanford, on Sweden's Radio P1 and in the newspaper Vi.
Johan Fredrikzon, postdoctoral fellow at KTH and visiting researcher at Stanford University, has participated in the program “Förmiddag med” ("Morning with") on Swedish Radio P1 on the theme of technological optimism as a social force.
Listen to the program here . (Swedish).
And recently Johan wrote a personal essay on the same theme in the newspaper Vi. There he discusses how the US election in 2024 can be seen as a movement away from political solutions and towards a situation where technology is supposed to be able to solve all our collective problems. In the essay, he reminds us of how violence and injustice continue through the decades while Silicon Valley views everything as a lack of intelligence where smarter machines, a deregulation of the market and a minimal state are the way to a better future. Read or listen to the essay here . (Swedish).