Hello! Lovely to see you here! X

Makes me think about how has shaped today's ideas about technology (utopian & distopian) & the inevitability or otherwise of developments we've seen.

Currently reading this really interesting book, which explores how a digital utopianism was born from a bizarre & (arguably) unlikely movement in 60s counterculture to adopt WWII / cold war practices & technologies based on the metaphor of the network (think Gregory Bateson & Buckminster Fuller).

Wondering if there is a way to avoid. Would that necessarily require some form of control / censorship, & hence you are back in the same space, just different controllers? Genuinely a question rather than a statement of belief.