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Rick
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I make things, with computers, sometimes.
Non-hardcore Creative Technologist.
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Anyway, everything is obviously terrible but - to quote the mighty Rebecca Solnit - "hope is the ax you break the door down with in an emergency". We have some potentially VERY exciting news to share soon, but in the meantime, hopeful.technology
As Rebecca Solnit says in Hope in the Dark, “Hope is an ax you break down the door with in an emergency”. Findings from our 2025 survey of 522 UK tech workers show 98% don’t feel represented by leading industry voices, but only 15% are comfortable raising concerns. Many tech workers need support and confidence to craft a more socially and environmentally positive future for technology – but it can be very easy to get stuck listing what’s wrong. The Society for Hopeful Technologists exists to lift up and shape trustworthy and socially beneficial approaches to technology, and to amplify the hope and ambition of everyone who knows a better way is possible.
January 8, 2026 at 10:46 PM