In the 1970s, degrowth theorists were already playing on fears to justify their anti-modern bias. Since then, two new monsters have emerged: artificial intelligence (AI) and, worse if possible, the transhumanist project to increase healthy human longevity.
In the category "fear of this progress that is not one", intellectuals occupy the top of the basket. They like to announce the catastrophe, as if it were necessarily... this article is for subscribers only. You still have 79% to discover.