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2600 words on a Tuesday morning is rough, anybody got a tl;dr?

• KineticLensman 8y ago
  I'd go with... > the most serious threats digital technologies pose are not strictly personal concerns like identity theft or companies’ surreptitiously listening in on conversations but the emergence of a softly deterministic techno-social order designed chiefly to produce individuals that are its willing subjects
  • bryanrasmussen 8y ago
    the goal of every social order is to produce individuals that are its willing subjects, whether it does this softly or not.
    • KineticLensman 8y ago
      Yes. I don't know the correct terminology but to me a 'state' can be viewed as a thing that enforces a social construct on its citizens. If the citizens can openly shape and agree with the social construct, so much the better.