Radical movements, appreciating the importance of technology, have often tried to appropriate or modify it, or even to create their own technologies. ‘Alternative’ or ‘sustainable’ technology has now become part of the mainstream, but has it lost sight of the principles of its founders, such as E F Schumacher? Has it become just another techno-fix? Trade unionists have also put forward alternative plans for how to use technology in the common interest, rather than those of corporations and the military. But can industrial megatechnologies ever really solve the problems that industrial capitalism has created? Can the Green and Left critiques of technology be combined?
Speakers :
- Patrick Mulvaney (adviser to Practical Action)
- Suzanne Jeffery (Million Climate Jobs Campaign)
The second half of the meeting will be an opportunity for people to give input on the Breaking the Frame gathering.
