Techno-skeptics' objection growing louder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/classic-apps/techno-skeptics-objection-growing-louder/2015/12/26/e83cf658-617a-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html
Taylor is a 21st-century digital dissenter. She's one of
the many technophiles unhappy about the way the tech revolution
has played out. Political progressives once embraced the
utopian promise of the Internet as a democratizing force, but
they've been dismayed by the rise of the "surveillance state,"
and the near-monopolization of digital platforms by huge
corporations. Last month, Taylor and more than 1,000 activists,
scholars and techies gathered at the New School in New York City
for a conference to talk about reinventing the Internet. They
dream of a co-op model: people dealing directly with one another
without having to go through a data-sucking corporate hub.
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Their concerns are noted, but the genie isn't going back into the
bottle. And their overall approach to their perceived problems is itself
highly problematic and essentially impractical.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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