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Answer: No. Reason: 1. Our tendency to compartmentalize developments, be it social, cultural, political or technical, results in governance that let things rot and escalate. When the crisis becomes big enough, the Political Value of Time comes into play, aka we don't have time for plebs rights. 2. Without understanding of context, tech will misfire. A lot of problems only exist because we are conditioned to NOT take the bigger picture in mind. In media, in policy, people try to handle things as context-free phenomena.
For example, western democracies have/had a very narrow focus on foreign threats. If an adversary is bombing you, than we can talk about defense, because: kinetic threats = mil. defense. Simple, but that is exactly our weakness: Economic sabotage => you will be lucky if there is any joint action over gov. branches
Political infiltration => uhm, we haven't thought about that. Lets pretend
nothing happens.
Disinformation campaigns, bribing influencers, sowing discord
=> uhm that is maybe something for the other department
I do understand the will to escape, but imho tech people should not flight reality; they should not lock themselves in a cave of ignorance. We don't have that luxury, especially as tech is the enabling instrument of authoritarians. Reality is complex and we should face it. |