“The very fact that the evolution of technology feels so inevitable is evidence of an act of manipulation, an authoritarian use of narrative brilliantly describ

“The very fact that the evolution of technology feels so inevitable is evidence of an act of manipulation, an authoritarian use of narrative brilliantly described by historian Timothy Snyder. He calls out the politics of inevitability ‘...a sense that the future is just more of the present, ... that there are no alternatives, and therefore nothing really to be done.’ There is no discussion of underlying values. Facts that don’t fit the narrative are disregarded.”