📄 Abstract
Today, emerging technologies from desktop manufacturing to artificial intelligence (AI) have captured the discourse of techno-utopianism in a renaissance. These stories offer the hope of a radical departure from the present, of visions of democratization and rationalization made optimal. Yet a critical synthesis of the sociology of innovation and organizational theory uncovers a darker architecture behind these promises. This paper argues that today’s techno-utopianism is an alienating device that produces a state of “rationalized unaccountability” (following Dickel and Schrape 2017; Vesa and Tienari 2020). Such stories sabotage the potential for authentic existence through devaluation of the present in favor of a speculative future (temporal alienation), obscuring decision-making behind opaque “black boxes” (epistemic alienation), and transference of systemic risks onto individuals while concentrating control (political alienation). Drawing on philosophical notions of authenticity and critiques of algorithmic governance, this paper proposes that the present-day “symbiosis of mind and machine” is inherently asymmetrical. It concludes by arguing for a hermeneutic analysis, a ‘fusion of horizons’, to reclaim moral agency and to ensure that technology remains a tool for human flourishing and not an instrument of estrangement.
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📚 How to Cite:
Nikhil Agrawal , HOW TECHNO-UTOPIANISM ALIENATES THE HUMAN MIND THROUGH THE AUTOMATED EXCUSE , Volume 13 , Issue 6, June 2026, EPRA International Journal of Socio-Economic and Environmental Outlook(SEEO) , Pages: 1 - 6 ,