Yet, even here..the anthropocentric hubris pervades the conversation.

…is only now, a decade after the financial crisis, that the American public seems to appreciate that what we thought was disruption worked more like extraction — -of our data, our attention, our time, our creativity, our content, our DNA, our homes, our cities, our relationships. The tech visionaries’ predictions did not usher us into the future, but rather a future where they a…
The Imperialist Fantasy of Going to Space
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Alex Mell-Taylor
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Jan 12, 2021
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Yet, even here..the anthropocentric hubris pervades the conversation.
It doesn’t matter whether we use tech to do the extraction of resources or labor: the economy is still based on humanity taking more from Nature than it contributes to the future of any place.
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