AUGUST 1, 2025, EDEN MAGAZINE PUBLISHES “THE TYRANNY OF TECHNOLOGY” BY PETER SOLOMON

During the last 200 years, science, technology, and medicine have produced amazing advances in human comfort, transportation, disease cures, and communication. The advances result from five technologies: fossil fuels technology introduced in the 18th Century; nuclear technology and social media in the 20th Century; and genetic engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) in the 21st Century. But the incredible speed of technical advances has far outpaced humanity’s social and political ability to safely manage them. It was the dangers of these technologies that caused astrophysicist Stephen Hawking to predict in 2017 that humans would become extinct on planet Earth in 100 years. Find it Here.