Cory Doctorow's Vision for a Just Tech Revolution
&quot;Just&quot; seems like a nice virtue, but to me it&#x27;s largely a question of whether we allow ourselves, our future, to be active agents in shaping &amp; crafting the world around us, or whether far-off powers-that-be get to dictate everything about how our mechanicized&#x2F;techanicized world about us works.<p>We owe it to our species to create a situation where people have some power, where volition matters.<p>The current trend has been sapping that little blip of agency at the heart of the promise of the personal computer. Computing is becoming unhip; it&#x27;s undergoing a large slower thermocline of trust as it asserts itself over us. And while that means less interest &amp; creeping dispassion, I think it also hints at a potential underdog movement. It creates space for a new incarnation of engaged pro-human computing.<p>We risk creating a disaffected culture. We risk losing humanity&#x27;s greatness and vibrancy, risk losing a world of empowered people. General purpose computing costs so relatively little, and provides so many potentials and avenues for exploration &amp; growth; it can and <i>ought</i> to be a pinnacle of man-as-toolmaker, inspire us individually &amp; collectively to keep reaching &amp; exploring. Justice or no, I think we are far lesser if we dont find leverage to liberate computing from the far off would be masters at the other ends of the fiber.