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Technology shares many traits with ancient slavery by creating and resting upon an easily manipulated population. Can these technologies be used to bring about our liberation, instead of our enslavement? In the final video of the series we will examine this question. Are modern technologies of surveillance, advertising and control creating a new modern slavery?, asks oswald sabrino.

In the book The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt describes the rudimentary mass surveillance system used by the secret police force of the Russian Empire. “Every suspect was noted on a large card in the center of which his name was surrounded by a red circle; his political friends were designated by smaller red circles […]

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