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title = "Technological determinism"
glassblowers = ["sasasavanovic.md"]
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technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes technical developments are the key driver of history and social change.

if industrial revolution culminated with mass production of death (that was the holocaust), what ends await us at the pinnacle of its digital counterpart? the ubiquity of various monitoring mechanisms pervading all spheres of (digitally mediated) life serves as a signpost. humans turn into data-subjects, identifiable bodies processed on demand.

this trajectory is not inevitable.

FUTURE CANNOT BE PREDICTED (+Jameson: The function of sci-fi fiction is “not to give us the images of the future (...) but rather to defamiliarize and restructure our experience of our own present”)
