During the stone age militaries and governments wielded stone.
During the bronze age militaries and governments wielded bronze.
During the iron age militaries and governments wielded iron.
We shouldn't be surprised that, during the information age, militaries and governments wield information.
The utilization of technology, like any tool, can be used for bad or good or positive or negative or might or right. It is agnostic to propriety and to morals.
When techies magnified the power of technology in the 80s, they used to herald information and its decentralization as something to magnify the power of the people.
Today when techies magnify the power of technology, they herald its use by large corporations or mimick the interests of their military. They think they are champions for people, for decentralization, but the vocabulary changed without their knowing about it and the excuses are more plentiful than good intentions, manifestos or philosophies.
More or less, computers were developed by governments for designing nuclear weapons, processing and decrypting intercepts, and so on. The PC revolution did foster decentralization, but it was an accident. They're correcting.
During the bronze age militaries and governments wielded bronze.
During the iron age militaries and governments wielded iron.
We shouldn't be surprised that, during the information age, militaries and governments wield information.
The utilization of technology, like any tool, can be used for bad or good or positive or negative or might or right. It is agnostic to propriety and to morals.
When techies magnified the power of technology in the 80s, they used to herald information and its decentralization as something to magnify the power of the people.
Today when techies magnify the power of technology, they herald its use by large corporations or mimick the interests of their military. They think they are champions for people, for decentralization, but the vocabulary changed without their knowing about it and the excuses are more plentiful than good intentions, manifestos or philosophies.