Technopolis – we władzy techniki
Technopolis – in the power of technology

Author(s): Krzysztof Pieliński
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: technocratism; utopia; end of history; axiological reductionism; naturalism
Summary/Abstract: The text presents the basic assumptions of American technocratic utopianism, an ideology developing in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, including the genealogy of this ideology with its ontological, epistemological, axiological and anthropological assumptions. Technocratic utopianism turns out to be an extreme variant of the vision of the ‘end of history’ – the emergence, based on a radical interpretation of the principle of technical determinism, of ultimately perfect order. Robotic technology is treated here as the final variant of technological development, an entity that makes obsolete the conflict of values known from history, the discretionary nature of human actions and institutions, as well as a factor that guarantees a specifically understood economy of abundance – an order that satisfies all human needs. The premise of this state is the reduction of values to facts and a specific interpretation of the catalogue of natural human needs.

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