Inconvenient (tech) truths: - Digital currencies have become a drug dealers' (the "illegal" ones) haven - Over time people have less and less control over computing, which means we must reject more and more technology in our lives - #surveillancecapitalism is about #imperialism (not profits). Geopolitical leverage, subsidised.

Jun 4 2019 · 4:06 AM

More from Dr. Roy Schestowitz (罗伊)

Computing Will Not Necessarily Make the World a Better Place

The vision of "happy world" (because each person has a so-called 'smart' 'phone') is a yuppie delusion that overlooks business models and corporate interests

techrights.org

February: Computing Will Not Necessarily Make the World a Better Place http://techrights.org/2019/02/17/yuppie-delusions/ maybe a subject to write a lot more about (in the future)

Lab-Grown Meat Can't Fix the Planet That Capitalism Broke

A recent study argued that we shouldn’t assume lab-grown meat is more emission-friendly than beef. The whole truth is much more structural and bleak.

motherboard.vice.com

[old] Yuppie fantasies https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3byw5/lab-grown-meat-cant-fix-the-planet-that-capitalism-broke

More people I correspond with (privately), even as recently as yesterday, are coming to the conclusion that technology has done far more harm (in a lot of aspects) than good. And moreover that it only gets worse over time.