The dominance of technological solutions and technological thinking over all other approaches to human problems. Under technological hegemony, every challenge is reframed as a technical problem requiring a technical fix—education needs an app, loneliness needs a social network, meaning needs a virtual reality. Alternative approaches (community-building, political change, spiritual practice, simple human connection) are marginalized as inefficient or outdated. Technological hegemony also describes the dominance of technologically advanced nations and corporations over those without such capabilities, creating dependencies that are as much cognitive as economic.
Example: "When the community proposed a neighborhood watch to address safety, the city responded with a proposal for surveillance cameras and predictive policing algorithms—technological hegemony reducing a human problem to a technical fix."
by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026
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