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the more fraught question
Topic: Miscellaneous 6:57 am EDT, Jun 22, 2015

Julia Powles:

The report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance pushes what it calls a "social compact" -- an invented term, not the philosophical concept of old. It reflects the frightening prospect that the new age bonds of society are not between citizens and states, but between citizens (likely, in the imagining of its proponents, to be self-employed cheap workers of the "sharing economy" and other fabricated markets) and a nebulous "community" of "stakeholders".

Bill Wasik:

From the Valley's perspective, the "power to share" looks less like an imposition of American values and more like a universal social good. But even if we agree with this proposition ... there is the more fraught question of what all that sharing adds up to.

Sam Biddle:

The brightest and buzziest apps aren't about connecting me to you, but rather about never forcing us to acknowledge that anyone else exists in real life as anything but the help.

What makes the pervading mythologies so frustrating is the smug certainty of Silicon Valley that its contributions to society are more important than every other industry's. It's not that we can't deal with assholes in our national midst (there's no innovating our way out of that); it's that no prior cohort of rich pricks have fooled themselves, and the rest of us, so thoroughly.



 
 
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