Technological relinquishment

Relinquishment is the idea that the dangers of Emerging technologies are so great and unmanageable that those technologies must be abandoned, or relinquished. The term was popularized by Bill Joy's famous 2000 Wired article"Why the Future Doesn't Need Us,” which argued that the dangers of technologies such as ...
See: Technophobia; Anti-technology; Antitechnism; Primitivism.
Associated with: Deathism.