ezlev quoted Future Histories by Lizzie O'Shea
A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow. …
Profiteering and entrepreneurship may have brought us good and useful advances in technology, but it would be a mistake to dismiss the intensely negative consequences as merely the growing pains of our digital existence, and it would be even more egregious to imagine that these advances somehow represent the fulfilment of the potential of digital technology. The sad reality is that these developments in technology are not particularly revolutionary: they represent the continued direction of human ingenuity toward the purpose of making money, the same old explanation of the market into yet another frontier. Technology capitalism shares similarities with fledgling industries of the past that became rapacious. They have significant potential to improve our lives, but only if we manage to hold them accountable to something other than the bottom line.