Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization (Experimental Futures)
To conclude, the new computer network will not necessarily be either bad or good. All we know for sure is that it will be alien and it will be fallible. We therefore need to build institutions that will be able to check not just familiar human weaknesses like greed and hatred but also radically alien errors. There is no technological solution to th
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antitrust, competition policy, interoperability mandates, better privacy regulation and a popular movement towards a more decentralized political economy and a less captured bureaucracy in Brussels and Washington
James Boyle • Misunderestimating openness – Open Future
Beyond international affairs, the theory of American exceptionalism also has implications for a political theory of networks. In contrast to Lovink, we maintain that in recent decades the processes of globalization have mutated from a system of control housed in a relatively small number of power hubs to a system of control infused into the materia
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