I read the Techno-Optimist Manifesto. I really enjoyed the lay out with all the different headings breaking up their thoughts. I was surprised by how many points that were made I agreed with. They believe that through technology we can raise everyone out of poverty. Everyone can have a better standard of living.

We believe in making everyone rich, everything cheap, and everything abundant.

~ The Techno-Optimist Manifest

Oh, look Dr Oblivion is eaves dropping again. What are you wanting to but in with doctor?

They believe free markets have the best potential to do this. That anyone and everyone should bring their ideas to the market to the betterment of everyone. I agree that markets are great. From my personal experience I had a booth at a farmers’ market. My husband and I saw a need in the market and filled it. We had may happy customers. We filled their need, and we made money. We were both happy with this arrangement. While my product wasn’t technology the basic principle is the same.

It is quite a contrast to Blade Runner where LA is a decaying mess. Where there are advertisements to leave Earth and have a better life off world. Techno-optimists believe that through technology we can do more with less. That through technology we can meet and exceed the demand for energy. We don’t need to bring our energy usage down but should be bringing it up. We have the technology for clean energy, but we have let fear stop us from using it. One should not make decisions from a place of fear. Fear can override one’s best judgment. I enjoyed this quote from Nixon that they used, because who quotes Nixon?

We believe energy need not expand to the detriment of the natural environment. We have the silver bullet for virtually unlimited zero-emissions energy today – nuclear fission. In 1973, President Richard Nixon called for Project Independence, the construction of 1,000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000, to achieve complete US energy independence. Nixon was right; we didn’t build the plants then, but we can now, anytime we decide we want to.

~The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

Dr Oblivion what would you like to ad?

There is a nuclear science exhibit at the Lake Anna Nuclear power plant out in Spotsylvania County Virginia. It is very interesting on how it all works.

The following is a collection of my favorite quotes about their enemies.

Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.

Our enemy is the ivory tower, the know-it-all credentialed expert worldview, indulging in abstract theories, luxury beliefs, social engineering, disconnected from the real world, delusional, unelected, and unaccountable – playing God with everyone else’s lives, with total insulation from the consequences.

Our enemy is speech control and thought control – the increasing use, in plain sight, of George Orwell’s “1984” as an instruction manual.

Our enemy is deceleration, de-growth, depopulation – the nihilistic wish, so trendy among our elites, for fewer people, less energy, and more suffering and death.

~ The Techno-Optimist Manifest

Everyone should be against the control of speech and thoughts. Why do people hate cults so much? they control people’s thoughts and lives. This should be universal but is not. We should be free to question everything said and done by everyone.

Would you agree Dr Oblivion?

We believe, as Richard Feynman said, “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

~the Techno-Optimist Manifesto

The science is never settled. Anyone that says that is the enemy in the ivory tower as quoted above.

What are your thoughts on science Doctor?

We believe technology is universalist. Technology doesn’t care about your ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, gender, sexuality, political views, height, weight, hair or lack thereof. Technology is built by a virtual United Nations of talent from all over the world. Anyone with a positive attitude and a cheap laptop can contribute. Technology is the ultimate open society.

~The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

I love this quote. How upbeat and positive it is. How it is for everyone by everyone. The whole of the manifesto is light, bright, and excitement for the future. When you watch Blade runner it is dark and sad. There is no hope just drudgery in the daily existence. Some people have everything, and others are left in the gutter. They drive home we are not the inevitable victims of AI.

Victim mentality is a curse in every domain of life, including in our relationship with technology – both unnecessary and self-defeating. We are not victims, we are conquerors.

~The Techno-Optimist Manifesto