Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.
We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
Man is about to be an automaton; he is identifiable only in the computer. As a person of worth and creativity, as a being with an infinite potential, he retreats and battles the forces that make him inhuman.
The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.
Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
