The Noam Chomsky of IT

Posted by oriettaxx on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:55PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm shocked about latest revelations on Google (and Facebook, ...) power to shape the world and I need help understanding how we've got to this point (and possibly the way out).

I feel everything sound so complicated while it could be easily understood with the help of somebody like Noam Chomsky writing on IT and geopolitics.

Any suggestion on what to read?

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Re:The Noam Chomsky of IT by readonthegoapp on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:36AM (#28996769)

Noam Chomsky prob

Shoshana Zuboff

Even stuff she wrote 100 years ago legit

But her recent stuff good too

Think she was one of the first to put it succinctly

Facebook or democracy

Choice is ours

And we've made our choice

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Re:The Noam Chomsky of IT by Fricken on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @03:09AM (#28997295)

Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist.

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Re:The Noam Chomsky of IT by jonjacky on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:55PM (#29007439)

Evgeny Morozov. His recent book To Save Everything, Click Here and earlier book The Net Delusion could be exactly what you are looking for. (I haven't read them myself, have only read reviews.)

Seconding Shoshana Zuboff also. Her latest book is The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

Also seconding Jaron Lanier, for the books You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future?

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Re:The Noam Chomsky of IT by HamburgerEmoji on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:37AM (#28996773)

Well, I don't know if they'd really fit the bill for you, but what comes to my mind is stuff by Jaron Lanier, and "When Google Met Wikileaks" by Julian Assange. Assange actually seems similar to Chomsky to me because of the depth and breadth of his knowledge.

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