*-> Also known as Cyberlibertarianism and Californian ideology.* This is a cross between hippie counterculture and Ayn Rand-based libertarianism, which came up in Silicon Valley during the early internet. Today it's mostly "tech bro's" thinking their economic fortune is based on their virtue (instead of circumstance) and the fallacy of transferable expertise. In other words: They think expertise in technology, specifically computers, trumps all other forms of knowledge and thus they are qualified to disrupt all other fields with it. This is usually done from a "first principle" approach, however without looking at anything from the field they are trying to disrupt. Typical results are: * Trying to solve social problems with technology and indeed thinking that social dynamics can be broken down into first principles * "If we apply this arbitrary new technology to something, it must now be revolutionary", regardless if the technology makes sense * Claiming "things are hard and we need to break things to learn" when in reality those problems have been identified & solved within the respective fields decades or even centuries ago ## Examples Previous [[Future Vision]] + new hype technology = [[Story Stock]] : * Theranos claiming it can do something "with digital technology" that every expert in the field can demonstrate is impossible * The same with [[Tesla]] and self driving * [[Bitcoin]], claiming Austrian economy + [[Blockchains]] = actually working somehow * Most cases of [[Futures Hallucination]] "Things are hard and we need to break things to learn": * Conceding that [[Meta (Facebook)]], specifically Facebook, is a product that can't be safely engineered is a slap in the face for all the [[Virtual Worlds]] that did. It's not hard to do so, Facebook is claiming this because it's more profitable for them to be unsafe & regulated than to clean up their platform. ## Articles & Posts [Technolibertarianism - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technolibertarianism)