#EdwardAFeigenbaum

2024-02-21

Surveillance Capitalism foreseen in 1984
> .. It's surprising how accurately Winner's [1984] predictions describe modern [2011] society. Passivity and complacency, the illusion of connectedness in the face of isolation, real democracy collapsing under the weight of increased media exposure and ubiquitous monitoring of citizens.

darcynorman.net/notes/2011/201

#DArcyNorman with
#LangdonWinner on #MythInformation

cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/phil

#EdwardAFeigenbaum #PamelaMcCorduck #TheFifthGeneration

Screenshot of the start of the paper mentioned in the blog post mentioned in this toot. A pdf of the paper from which this screenshot was taken also linked. The text of the screenshot is:
> Mythinformation
in the high-tech era

The romanticization of the personal computer as a social panacea threatens
to blind society to the fact that without guiding wisdom even the best tool can be misused.

Langdon Winner

University of California  at Santa Cruz

 “{With powerful personal computers} revolution, trans-
formation and salvation are all to be carried out.”
Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck (in The Fifth Generation)

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