Julian Oliver on Nostr: Tech oligarchies are an environmental & societal catastrophe. Under the prevailing ...
Tech oligarchies are an environmental & societal catastrophe.
Under the prevailing ideology of Technological Determinism we're conditioned to understand these sprawling centralisations of capital & skill as a 'natural' expression of Progress. In so doing we give license to their rampant capture of our Commons.
It is time we consciously decouple tech oligarchies from any notion of progress, lest of all the Commons. Rather, we ought to see them as an oil spill, an epidemic, a civilisational rot
Under the prevailing ideology of Technological Determinism we're conditioned to understand these sprawling centralisations of capital & skill as a 'natural' expression of Progress. In so doing we give license to their rampant capture of our Commons.
It is time we consciously decouple tech oligarchies from any notion of progress, lest of all the Commons. Rather, we ought to see them as an oil spill, an epidemic, a civilisational rot