New digital automation arguably extends and intensifies the domination of nature that defines modern technology from its inception. In a time of the Anthropocene, when sustainable relations between humanity and nature are increasingly becoming urgent, the digital further entrenches an abstract relation to nature which exponentially increases our trajectory into the abyss by placing under erasure humanity’s capacity to protend alternative futures. Ernst Bloch’s insights into the utopianism of humanity’s technicity, and the latter’s deep connection to a hypothesised “natural subject” in his work, provides us with a way to think about the ecological potentials of digital technology, despite its evident ecological challenges. To show this, the chapter places Bloch’s insights on technology and nature into dialogue with those of Bernard Stiegler and André Gorz. It argues that while Bloch might allow us to perceive warm streams of hope in the digital stage of humanity’s technicity, creating space to think of a more conducive relation to nature in the aim of human and natural flourishing, Bloch’s analysis is simultaneously crossed by a fundamental theoretical-practical contradiction that relates to the autonomy of the human being from its technics, and which has implications for the hypothesised nature subject and, thereby, for the ecological potentials of digital technology.