Tech Optimist: Someone who believes that Technology will eventually solve all (or the main) problems, including the new problems technology itself creates when trying to solve problems. Tech Optimists like to point to statistics that prove we live in the best of all worlds today, with the longest life expectancy, and the lowest child mortality and poverty rates. Tech pessimists take the opposite position, claiming that technology cannot solve our problems but will only lead us to armageddon, pointing to rising global temperatures, nuclear time bombs and the plastic soup. Both are extreme positions based on opposing beliefs based in Metaphysics. Given that Everybody is always somewhat right, they both might have a point. The assumption that technology will always create bigger problems that it solves is as exaggerated as the position that one day The Sorcerer's Apprentice will suddenly become an old Sorcerer by creating a bigger and bigger mess. Favourite topics for Tech Optimists (and pessimists) are nuclear energy (“Safer than solar!”) and Artificial Intelligence (“Forget Plato!”). It’s fair to assume that information technology has done and will continue to do to our minds what physical technology has done to our physical reality. Tech optimism is compatible but not congruent with Design Positivism. You can be a Tech Optimist without sharing design positivistic views and vice versa.

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