Where have all the Luddites gone? Exploring what makes us human – and whether modern technology threatens to destroy it

By Charles Barbour, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Western Sydney University

The great – if sometimes overlooked – 20th-century philosopher and cultural critic Günther Anders once proposed that our modern age is characterised by a dangerous and pervasive “Apocalypse-Blindheit”: a blindness to the apocalypse.

Writing in the midst of the 20th-century nuclear arms race, he suggested an unquestioning faith in science and progress prevents us from seeing the technological catastrophe spreading out all around…

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