Tech
Some of the most poignant criticisms of technology are found in what are actually considered to be dystopian literary classics, for instance Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and other writings, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. And, in Faust by Goethe, Faust’s promoting his soul to the devil in return for power over the bodily world, can additionally be typically interpreted as a metaphor for the adoption of industrial technology. Generally, technicism is an over reliance or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society. The invention of the wheel revolutionized actions as disparate as transportation,…
