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By intention, everyone would be in one another’s way. Members of the technical staff would often have both laboratories and small offices—but these might be in different corridors, therefore making it necessary to walk between the two, and all but assuring a chance encounter or two with a colleague during the commute. By the same token, the long
... See moreJon Gertner • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Who are infrastructural systems for? Who benefits, who pays the costs, and where are the resources coming from? As Langdon Winner put it, all artifacts have politics:6 they embody and encode certain social structures,
Deb Chachra • How Infrastructure Works
Clinton’s Libya problem encapsulated the weak point of the technocracy. The argument for expertise as the basis for political authority depends on the experts’ success at managing both their small niche and society as a whole.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
technology for “the mass production of behavior”
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
When the technologies that are shaping the new millennium are considered, it is far more likely that we will see not one world government, but microgovernment, or even conditions approaching anarchy.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
It has moved us away from the idea that authority has the right answer (instead, it relies on expert advice to give insight into the complex mechanics of the world) and brings a healthy dose of skepticism regarding revealed truth.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
