Technology and Redistribution of Power (with Yanis Varoufakis)
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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Are Your Crowd Shorteners in Action?
Janis Fakis: What forces will drive the transition to a world where these institutions give up their power and influence to the people, that doesn't rely on a destructive revolution? In the book, i try to give a flavor of this through my techno rebels, who are peaceful, but have a capacity to use the instruments of the enemy and turn them against them. The only way of overthrowing a system that needs to be overthrown, and to do it peacefully, is by reversing the cost benefit,. We can bring amazon down, for instance, with very small personal contributions, but with very large effect. I think that the internet and financial engineering give potential movements the capacity to do
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