Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Siligone Tomorrow
One face of delusive digi-utopians declaring cyberspace some immaterial spirit-realm -- the "Home of Mind" -- is the dangerous denial of the unjust, unsustainable material reality of an internet fueled by dirty coal smoke, accessed on toxic devices destined all too soon for landfill, and made by wage-slaves toiling in overexploited regions of the world. But another face of that digi-utopian denial yields an ongoing obliviousness to the costs and demands of building and maintaining the material infrastructure on which ongoing online functionality absolutely depends.
America's internet is ridiculously overpriced underperforming shit compared to much of the world, and SillyCon Valley peddling shitty apps just piles the shit pile higher. Libertechbrotarians high-fiving each other hooting that "We're Number One!" or "No Limits!" or "Disruption, Extreme!" and circle-jerking futurologically about accelerating acceleration accelerating to acceleration to "...Thuh Footure!" is just lies, lies, lies, lies all the way down.
America's internet is ridiculously overpriced underperforming shit compared to much of the world, and SillyCon Valley peddling shitty apps just piles the shit pile higher. Libertechbrotarians high-fiving each other hooting that "We're Number One!" or "No Limits!" or "Disruption, Extreme!" and circle-jerking futurologically about accelerating acceleration accelerating to acceleration to "...Thuh Footure!" is just lies, lies, lies, lies all the way down.
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> America's internet is ridiculously overpriced underperforming shit
> compared to much of the world. . .
And it's going to get worse:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/opinion/krugman-barons-of-broadband.html
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