Evgeny Morozov’s Response to Martin Schulz
Digital Thinking? Wishful Thinking!
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.. the failures of social movements to emerge or, in the case of movements like Occupy Wall Street, to present a sustained challenge to the existing economic order are not just failures of their communication technology. But it’s hard to deny that the latter surely played a role in their demise.
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During the last fifty years, the language of technology – and rest assured, technology today comes with a heavy discursive package and it’s not just a bunch of wires and gadgets – has made it harder for everyone – including the left – to identify the structural conditions that govern our lives. In fact, many of us bought into the vision – promoted by the likes of Steve Jobs – that we can gain empowerment and emancipation by having access to latest technologies of personal computing. “Access to tools” is still a powerful slogan for many technologists in California. This, of course, has always bordered on the idiotic. Those structures – from money to national security concerns – never went away; they just hid themselves under the veneer of “digitization.”