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The myth that everything is "tech"
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In short -- and as short as I can make it -- creating a technology is "tech". Using it is finance, administration, creative activity, or (at worst) new and clever forms of exploitation. So if Uber simply finds a way to get around taxi licensing by using the Internet, then it is not so much technology as it is a new model of business. If Amazon can get away with replacing the retail experience of impulse shopping for books or recorded music, then such is the exploitation of technology for an economic shortcut.

It's the new and clever forms of exploitation for which we must be on guard. We need a fresh assertion of the value of humanity, and being being overworked and underpaid has never been real progress. Perhaps it can be means to an end, but if it is the end in itself we see nothing more than the revival of capitalism at its worst -- exploitation without service.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist  but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.


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The myth that everything is "tech" - by pbrower2a - 08-26-2016, 05:17 AM
RE: The myth that everything is "tech" - by pbrower2a - 08-26-2016, 05:26 AM

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