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The Technocratic Paradigm of the Early Information Age

Douglas Rushkoff: I think that, you know, one of my favorite historians, William Rowan Thompson, talked a lot about the way that the early information age would undermine itself and lead to a collapse. He says Charles Strauss's novel Accelerando points to a similar kind of collapse back to the human scale.Rushkoff: People are systematically pulling out of this supposed technological golden age and returning to a world in which they are going to age and die.

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