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1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2019 17:14:03 EDT neil 🍄

   Really enjoying Lizzie O’Shea’s “Future Histories” so far. It’s really nicely written, and weaves together current social, political and economic technological quandaries with a reading of relevant ideas from history. I really like the historical perspective – it gives a nice handle with which to grapple with these problems.

   1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2019 17:14:35 EDT neil 🍄

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      Like a lot of books I’ve read lately though, so far it’s heavy on the diagnosis, and light on the actual treatment. But I’m only at the beginning so I hope it will flesh out with some concrete action as I go along.

      1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2019 17:14:55 EDT neil 🍄

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         “We need social movements that collaborate—in workplaces, schools, community spaces and the streets—to demand that the development of technology be brought under more democratic forms of power rather than corporations or the state.”

         True enough. Although I am unaware of what form it would take. Who is in these social movements? To whom are the demands made? What are they exactly?

         1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2019 17:16:08 EDT neil 🍄

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            “As the planet slides further toward a potential future of catastrophic climate change, and as society glorifies billionaires while billions languish in poverty, digital technology could be a tool for arresting capitalism’s death drive and radically transforming the prospects of humanity. But this requires that we politically organize to demand something different.”

            Totally agree with the sentiment. But who is we? What organizational form should we take? What is the demand we should be making?