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    1. Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‏ @JSMilbank Nov 15

      Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Retweeted eigenrobot

      I have my doubts about this - certainly we have vastly empowered those who can manipulate and monetise the vast new data sets of online communication - but as with all technological shifts political and legal systems have helped bring this abouthttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1460215366508969985 …

      Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 added,

      eigenrobot @eigenrobot
      the future belongs to coders. this has been clear since the 90s and only grows truer as time passes. our current struggles pitch the old priesthood against the new but the end is not in doubt. this is historic dialectical if you want to be marxist about it. it is inexorable
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    2. Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‏ @JSMilbank Nov 15

      People are ever more aware of the power of big tech firms and increasingly suspicious and resentful of that power - a backlash is looking increasingly inevitable

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15
      Replying to @JSMilbank

      partly i wanted to be an oracle in that thread so yes i exaggerate my certainty :) but i do think this is how things are likely to shake out regardless of what the demos want enclosure and industrialization ran roughshod over kings and peasants and i expect silicon will too

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    4. Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‏ @JSMilbank Nov 15
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      So you can't just pretend away a technological shift, and they interact with mutually reinforcing social, intellectual and economic forces that cannot be straightforwardly stopped or resisted.

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    5. Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‏ @JSMilbank Nov 15
      Replying to @JSMilbank @eigenrobot

      But that's not the same thing as historical or technological determinism - contradictions can suddenly emerge between different forces, and groups and even individuals can transform the world, sometimes long after they've died.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Nov 15
      Replying to @JSMilbank

      hm do you have a concrete counterexample in mind?

      4:19 AM - 15 Nov 2021
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        2. Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‏ @JSMilbank Nov 15
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Well we're living in it - Germany and France had very different industrial revolutions to Britain, as even a cursory glance at their modern day economies could tell you.

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        3. Sebastian Milbank  🥀 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿‏ @JSMilbank Nov 15
          Replying to @JSMilbank @eigenrobot

          If Germany or France had gained global domination rather than the Anglo-American model, we'd be living in a different kind of industrial society today. China and America are right now making political choices that we're all downstream of.

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