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October 30, 2019Publisher’s Note: Increasingly, our beautiful Green Mountains here in Vermont feel like a physical refuge from the emerging 21st century world of digital surveillance. This is, of course, an illusion. In his recent ATLANTIC article from last fall entitled “Why Technology Favors Tyranny,” historian Yuval Noah Harari sounds a wake up call for we sapiens in a quickly changing world of info and bio tech. Below, a few of the most provocative sources on “technocracy” to complement our thinking about “Big Other” and our emerging Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Whither our emerging 2nd Vermont republic on thee vital emerging 21st century meta-questions?
James Corbett’s seminal video “Data is the New Oil” provides context for understanding our emerging “technocracy” –>
Research and author Patrick Wood’s work on “technocracy” is also instructive.
And former NYU professor Michael Rectenwald’s new book The Google Archipelago is fascinating and important – are we being herded into a “digital gulag” under the guise of “freedom”?
Follow the researchers down the rabbit hole, and free Vermont!
