Ghosts in the Machines « Der Feuilletonist
▻http://blogs.sueddeutsche.de/feuilletonist/2013/10/10/ghosts-in-the-machines
The English original of Evgeny Morozov’s essay on technology and neoliberalism from the Feuilleton section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung on October 10th 2013
To listen to Silicon Valley and its cheerleaders, to talk technology today is to talk innovation, progress, emancipation. By analogy, to talk anti-technology is to succumb to a reactionary, anti-progressive view that offends the very spirit of Enlightenment. It is to be a Luddite and an enemy of human betterment.
