Just published at the wonderful (open access) journal First Monday, my long-in-progress article on a general theory of how innovation events train us to forget: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…
This paper outlines a theory of amnesia in the face of innovation: when apparent technological innovations occasion the disregard of preexisting cultural, legal, and infrastructural norms.
love the intuition of the paper, especially in acknowledging the challenges of modern governance as an important factor (which I think is too often ignored/handwaved in left criticisms of tech).
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Luis Villa
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in reply to Nathan Schneider • • •love the intuition of the paper, especially in acknowledging the challenges of modern governance as an important factor (which I think is too often ignored/handwaved in left criticisms of tech).
cc @blakereid @paulohm
Eliot Lash
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Publication title: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" by Nathan Schneider.
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