{"id":15491,"date":"2024-08-10T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/dont-trust-the-inevitability-myth-touted-by-the-tech-determinists-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-08-10T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T13:39:05","slug":"dont-trust-the-inevitability-myth-touted-by-the-tech-determinists-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/dont-trust-the-inevitability-myth-touted-by-the-tech-determinists-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t trust the inevitability myth touted by the tech determinists | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

An abandoned Australian \u2018experiment\u2019 shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress<\/p>\n

Scratch a digital capitalist and you\u2019ll find a technological determinist \u2013 someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as \u201ccreative destruction\u201d. They revel in \u201cmoving fast and breaking things\u201d as the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, used to put it until his PR people convinced him it was not a good vibe, not least because it implied leaving taxpayers to pick up the broken pieces.<\/p>\n

Tech determinism is an ideology, really; it\u2019s what determines how you think when you don\u2019t even know that you\u2019re thinking. And it feeds on a narrative of technological inevitability<\/em>, which says that new stuff is coming down the line whether you like it or not. As the writer LM Sacasas puts it<\/a>, \u201call assertions of inevitability have agendas, and narratives of technological inevitability provide convenient cover for tech companies to secure their desired ends, minimise resistance, and convince consumers that they are buying into a necessary, if not necessarily desirable future\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nAn abandoned Australian \u2018experiment\u2019 shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress
\nScratch a digital capitalist and you\u2019ll find a technological determinist \u2013 someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as \u201ccreative destruction\u201d. They revel in \u201cmoving fast and breaking things\u201d as the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, used to put it until his PR people convinced him it was not a good vibe, not least because it implied leaving taxpayers to pick up the broken pieces.
\nTech determinism is an ideology, really; it\u2019s what determines how you think when you don\u2019t even know that you\u2019re thinking. And it feeds on a narrative of technological inevitability, which says that new stuff is coming down the line whether you like it or not. As the writer LM Sacasas puts it, \u201call assertions of inevitability have agendas, and narratives of technological inevitability provide convenient cover for tech companies to secure their desired ends, minimise resistance, and convince consumers that they are buying into a necessary, if not necessarily desirable future\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An abandoned Australian \u2018experiment\u2019 shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress Scratch a digital capitalist and you\u2019ll find a technological determinist \u2013 someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as \u201ccreative destruction\u201d. They revel …<\/p>\n

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