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So, more of a tech-oriented capitalist entreprenurial New Athiesque ideology...?
I think there's an aspect of it that relates to whiz-bang aesthetics of tech marketing too. Not just a faith in techno-solutions, but a celebration of the belief that techno-solutioning is really the only thing that makes society/existence improve, and these solutions only come from techno-genius individuals.
It's the evolution of the 'eureka' story into a full mythology of progress. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-archimede/
It's reddit brained science lovers. But not the immortal science of Marxism.
Egh, all the same...
Yeah basically the IFLS crowd