- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism.
Dark Enlightenment.
There is nothing enlightened about this descent into the abyss.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
This what Thiel believes in.
Jfc, it’s like the megacorp-run city states in Shadowrun. How the fuck does anyone think this is a good idea?
Megacorps: “I don’t get it, why aren’t you all on board?”
We live in a cyberpunk dystopia without the good bits
They have a lot more power than we do, and most of the peasantry support them. This is our future. We’d best learn to live with it in public, and gum up the works in private.