Samenvatting

Do we dare to explore the hypothesis that technology shouldn't necessarily play the main role in our human future? It's time to face this discrepancy. Technology became our faith, but it is certainly not a joyful faith. With every new "solution", comes the need for new "solutions" to mitigate the previously undetected unwanted side effects. It's like an arms race, a technology race. Because unlike traditional religions, global tech religion creates matter. Even a virtual world (the metaverse) is material. The man-made mass (textile, plastic, asphalt, concrete, glass, etc.) already weighs 1.2 times the mass of all organic material on earth (all trees, animals, etc.). Every new pollution requires heavier treatment, every dike breach requires heavier dikes. It won't end until we stop leaving to “think different” (Apple) to technology. In the article it is argued that the Inner Development Goals provide a framework fthrough 5 psychological factors - being, thinking, relation to the world, collaboration and adapting - to tackle the sustainability problems.