An important warning from Naomi Klein about the momentum to have Covid19 accelerate the dominant myth of big tech as an inevitable and unregulated custodian of our lives:
This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen “shared” on a mediated platform. It’s a future that employs far fewer teachers, doctors, and drivers. It accepts no cash or credit cards (under guise of virus control) and has skeletal mass transit and far less live art. It’s a future that claims to be run on “artificial intelligence” but is actually held together
Source: The Intercept A High-Tech Coronavirus Dystopia
Source: The Guardian A High-Tech Coronavirus Dystopia