Howard Zinn distinguishes between a totalitarian state and democracy: “To go along with whatever your government does is not a characteristic of democracy.”
The colossal scale of industrial technologies (Big Data, Big Telecom), fifth generation of wireless networks (5G), digital mining, AI, Interactive Design (IxD) (including neuroengineering, brain-computer interaction, cognitive state-aware AR/VR, and IxD for gene expression) is currently impacting our world with a ferocity few of us seem to be capable of resisting. Complicity is integral to our contemporary US democracy. In order to shed our habituated obedience to convenience-culture, we can no longer ignore that 5G is not a regulated public utility. It is time for us to thoroughly examine how these digital technologies are unquestioningly considered the next frontier, the edge of progress in a vertical hierarchy of imagination—obliterating the infinite possibilities of exploring what already exists, while ignoring both the messiness and the magic of our everyday worlds.
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