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◈ Guardian Technology — Article #6
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║ 💻 Tech · Guardian Technology article 6 ║
║ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:00:13 GMT ║
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│ Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were │
│ ignored │
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Summary / excerpt:
Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia – but some
foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen? One of the
stranger things about this dizzying, headlong moment in time is that it doesn’t have
much of a past. Everything is about the future of this, the future of that: the future
of work, the future of humanity, the future of the planet. It’s as if everyone is
screaming (some ecstatically, most terror-stricken): robots are taking over the world!
Meanwhile, you can’t put down your phone, unplug, delete your AI apps, tell Zoom to
piss off; it feels as if you are racing toward something, and can’t stop, or look back,
or think straight. But of course this weird moment in history does have a past. It
comes from somewhere. It wasn’t inevitable. Things could have turned out differently.
They still can. And if you look back, one t
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital
-age-warnings-computer-history-technology
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