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Digital Technology as Heavy Industrial Technology: iSlavery and Environmental Destruction — September 2017 — Videos
Digital technology is often seen as ‘immaterial’ and ‘smart’, defining a new industrial and social paradigm. Yet digital gadgets are produced within an ‘old-fashioned’ highly exploitative regime that has been likened to slavery, whilst the industry creates massive environmental destruction … Continue reading
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Tagged Capitalism, Digital technology, Environment, Events, Exploitation, Industrialism, Neoliberalism
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Public meeting – The politics of alternative technology and workers’ plans – Jan 2014 – report
The January Breaking the Frame café discussion focussed on ‘alternative’ approaches to technology development by green and left movements but, as Patrick Mulvaney, who is an advisor to Practical Action (formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group; ITDG) pointed out, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Appropriate technology, Biotechnology, Capitalism, Climate change, E F Schumacher, Environment, Events, Food, Illich, Industrialism, International Development, La Vie Campesina, Lucas Plan, Luddism, Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Nuclear power, Practical Action, Socialism, Synthetic biology, Technocracy, Technofixes, Technology, Unions, Work
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