Silicon Valley's offerings are like the sirens from greek mythology: Very seductive but deadly.pic.twitter.com/m7TvrTu4q6
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Do you remember the public discussion about car industry, health industry, oil industry, energy industry? Me neither. A bunch of the "participation" looks like a protection racket: look, nice tech company you have here, would be such a shame if something were to happen to it...
vividly remember the (ongoing) public discourse around the energy industry in Germany. Led to tangible outcomes (https://energytransition.org/2013/10/citizens-own-half-of-german-renewables/ …). I mostly get your point and would agree on a cynical day, but don't want to stop envisioning a more distributed reality.
While I applaud and share your sentiments, this was basically the opposite of a public discourse with the energy industry. The private/community sector solar movement is the response to the energy providers' refusal to innovate or go green. It is routing around them.
regarding the "protection racket" comment: How do you suggest entities such as the EU A) go about taxing Big-Tech (currently very difficult) and B) ensure they have a healthy local eco-system (after the US, currently only in China due to heavy protectionism) ?
The EU commission is pretty much indifferent to public concerns and only torn between the conflicting wishes of US and EU corporate lobbyists.
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