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Power and progress : ou pourquoi innovation et prospérité ne riment jamais vraiment
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Livre sans doute intéressant. #merci @biggrizzly

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L’absence de liaison entre progrès technologique et progrès social fait partie des débats et du travail scientifique depuis « La Situation de la classe ouvrière en Angleterre en 1844 » de Friedrich Engels. Ensuite il y a les études sur la croissance capitaliste de Rosa Luxemburg et « L’Impérialisme, stade suprême du capitalisme » de Lénine pour ne mentionner que les oeuvres classiques écrite par les critiques de l’industralisation de gauche.

Si les auteurs Acemoglu et Johnson ont écrit leur livre avec l’intention de contribuer au combat pour l’abolition des élites qui dirigent et profitent systématiquement des avancées technologiques, c’est sans doute un livre important. Sans une analyse de ce type ce n’est qu’une paroi rocheuse à dynamiter pour en ramasser les blocs d’information nécessaires pour la construction de notre monde à nous.

Les remarques sur le sort des paysans en URSS dans l’article référencé font croire qu’on n’échappera pas au boulot de tailleur de pierre.

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A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either serve the narrow interests of an elite or become the foundation for widespread prosperity.

The wealth generated by technological improvements in agriculture during the European Middle Ages was captured by the nobility and used to build grand cathedrals while peasants remained on the edge of starvation. The first hundred years of industrialization in England delivered stagnant incomes for working people. And throughout the world today, digital technologies and artificial intelligence undermine jobs and democracy through excessive automation, massive data collection, and intrusive surveillance.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Power and Progress demonstrates that the path of technology was once—and may again be—brought under control. The tremendous computing advances of the last half century can become empowering and democratizing tools, but not if all major decisions remain in the hands of a few hubristic tech leaders.

With their breakthrough economic theory and manifesto for a better society, Acemoglu and Johnson provide the vision needed to reshape how we innovate and who really gains from technological advances.

Author(s): Daron Acemoglu; Simon Johnson; Publisher: Hachette Book Group, Year: 2023; ISBN: 2022059230,9781541702530,9781541702554

Le texte publicitaire de l’éditeur en dit long sur l’ a priori des auteurs : L’expression « choices we make about technology » est du bullshit libéral. Sous les régimes capitalistes « nous », c’est à dire la société, ne prenons pas de décisions essentielles par rapport au technologies. Dans le meilleur des cas « nous » entrons en négatiations avec les élites au pouvoir dans leurs folle course vers des offensives de plus en plus meurtrières.

#exploitation #travail #technologie #progrès #manifest_destiny #exceptionnalisme_américain #numérisation #révolution_industrielle #capitalisme #destinée_manifeste

Power and progress : ou pourquoi innovation et prospérité ne riment jamais vraiment
▻https://maisouvaleweb.fr/power-and-progress-ou-pourquoi-innovation-et-prosperite-ne-riment-jama

Les données connues sur le temps de travail sont à ce titre édifiantes : alors que les chasseurs-cueilleurs vivaient en moyenne de 21 à 37 ans, et travaillaient 5 heures par jour, les paysans au moyen-âge travaillent 10 heures par jour, et leur espérance de vie atteint 19 ans seulement. Ils sont plus petits, moins bien nourris, vivent dans des sociétés encore plus patriarcales.

Pentagon Blocks Sharing Evidence of Possible Russian War Crimes With Hague Court
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/politics/pentagon-war-crimes-hague.html

The Pentagon is blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence with the International Criminal Court in The Hague gathered by American intelligence agencies about Russian atrocities in Ukraine, according to current and former officials briefed on the matter.

American military leaders oppose helping the court investigate Russians because they fear setting a precedent that might help pave the way for it to prosecute Americans. The rest of the administration, including intelligence agencies and the State and Justice Departments, favors giving the evidence to the court, the officials said.

President Biden has yet to resolve the impasse, officials said.

The evidence is said to include details relevant to an investigation the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, began after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago. The information reportedly includes material about decisions by Russian officials to deliberately target civilian infrastructure and to abduct thousands of Ukrainian children from occupied territory.

In December, Congress modified longstanding legal restrictions on American help to the court, allowing the United States to assist with its investigations and eventual prosecutions related to the war in Ukraine. But inside the Biden administration, a policy dispute over whether to do so continues to play out behind closed doors.

[...] In late December, lawmakers enacted two laws aimed at increasing the chances that Russians would be held accountable for war crimes in Ukraine.

One was a stand-alone bill expanding the jurisdiction of American prosecutors to charge foreigners for war crimes committed abroad. The other, a provision about the International Criminal Court embedded in the large appropriations bill Congress passed in late December, received little attention at the time.

But that provision was significant. While the U.S. government remains prohibited from providing funding and certain other aid to the court, Congress created an exception that allows it to assist with “investigations and prosecutions of foreign nationals related to the situation in #Ukraine, including to support victims and witnesses.”

Despite that legal change and Congress’s signal of support, the Pentagon has stood firm that the United States should not help the International Criminal Court investigate Russians for their actions in Ukraine since Russia is not a party to the treaty that established the court.

That resistance has attracted criticism both inside and outside the executive branch. Some legal specialists contend that there is scant benefit to hewing to that position because the rest of the world essentially rejects that interpretation.

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