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Dictatorship over needs names a particular sort of modern dystopian impulse that was born out of the French Revolution, and took root in the Bolshevik October Revolution. The Soviet system is gone; but a new version of this dystopia can be seen to be taking root once again.
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A consideration of theories of human needs as a condition for characterizing tech Solutionism as a “dictatorship over needs.
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Before taking a heretical step (to define Silicon Valley by means of concepts that are not its own) it is useful to take a closer look at some aspects of technological hyper capitalism.
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In this first installment of my Tedd Talk, I make the claim that the Silicon Valley Utopia of technological solutionism has definitively “jumped the shark.” By this I mean that it has been publicly and widely exposed as having given birth to a full-fledged dystopia.
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