The techno-utopians do a great job of showing the potential of technology to solve huge problems and give us a better world. I generally see this potential the same way they do. My fundamental difference with them is a particular kind of skepticism. Just because things could work out well doesn’t mean they must work out well. For […]
There has been much discussion of Paul Romer’s charter cities, and an experiment of this sort may be taking shape in the Honduras– though not one to Romer’s liking. I expect that people will want to compare celebration society city states to charter cities. I wish to facilitate this comparison, highlighting important differences and showing […]
With his book A Celebration Society, Jonathan Kolber has not only produced a far reaching elucidation of many of today’s (and more importantly, tomorrow’s) global problems, but he has also done that rare and difficult thing – provided a thoughtful and detailed solution to them. Too often, we do things because that’s how we’ve always done […]
Here’s a review from Todd William: “The world of technology is becoming increasingly more exciting with every new advancement, yet one aspect that many consider troubling is the notion that ever more jobs are being replaced by machines. This is not a new phenomena, as we’ve seen such shifts occur in the past. The agricultural […]
This book offers a genuinely new solution to technological unemployment More articles and books about the looming crisis are appearing all the time. Many offer clear explanations of the threat and why it is so serious. Where they fall short is in providing a solution that can actually work. Their solutions for first-world nations always […]
Todd William pointed out that I didn’t clearly address issues of private property in the book. I’ll address them here. Private property and ownership are legal concepts. They are structured as part of the legal system. In a Celebration Society, this will be the Charter supported by specific laws regarding property and ownership, enforced by the […]
The research and writing of this book has obviously been a massive undertaking. Not so obviously, it is incredibly up to date with current technological advances. I started to read it as just another attempt at idealizing a Utopian Society. I had all the usual misgivings about his glossing over of inconvenient truths, or leaving […]
