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4Aug/13Off

The End of the Age of Digital Innocence

The single biggest impact of the files leaked by Edward Snowden’s lies in the dismantling of the Age of Digital Innocence. It’s about time to bring the rhetoric of struggle and the theory of power into the digital realm, and to talk about technology as a site of contestation. Because the misbelief that a revolutionary technology will necessarily usher in an age of progress only serves those who exert the greatest control. The future they envision will most certainly be transformative but not necessarily desirable.

Read the full editorial here: http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/martin-eiermann--3/7252-technology-as-power?curator=MediaREDEF

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