http://tinyurl.com/l5vcnp7 and
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175822/
Finally somebody makes a public argument against the breathless Red Herring
Utopian hype around IoT and its purported deep and beneficent innocence.
Back in the 90s, there was the same level of hype around the Web in
Was recently reading Matteo Pasquinelli's impressive 2014 article on society of
meta-data -and how italian (post)workerists have identified the trend and
grasped where it was leading;
http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/02/02/0263276413514117
At the end Matteo links the argument to the
ACLU is not what it once was. The national office is now almost
exclusively mercenary, corporatized as a fund-raising foundation,
high-salaried leaders deployed to hustle concentrated wealth
holders. Genuine public interest board members departed
some time ago. The branches remain reputable but
