The Perils Of Smashing The Past

Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds in

In the case of fears over large-scale unemployment, the real risk to the future is the understandable tendency to react to adversity by hanging on to the past rather than seizing the opportunities that the underlying causes of adversity create.

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

system. The US tech industry has squandered the opportunity to remain the center of the new age of ubiquitous computing and networks. And so the clock is ticking. Silicon Valley is not alone in the world. China is gearing up to match American power and push its own model forward. What we’re currently going through is a very complicated game being p