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Breaking the Power of Big Tech, with Jamie Susskind
Intelligence Squared
Is Technology a Political or a Technology Is Neutral?
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In the first half of your book, which is essentially diagnostic in nature, you point all this out. You state that technologies exert real power. And i think if you combine those three capabilities, you see that what we're dealing with is not just technologies that are more powerful in technical terms, but that technologies that have real power in political term too. So soft wer neers are becoming social engineers. It's a bit of a catch 22, because you'd think, you know, the more you know and understand about digital technology, the freer you might be. But it's not right.
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