Is technology just a tool…?
It should be projected that those occupied in the rebellious side of asymmetric warfare would be profoundly contingent on existing and widely deployed communications tools.
As the expertise gulf between what you can organize yourself and what large corporations with access to capital markets can field one would expect those systems to be co-opted for every conceivable purpose.
Technology is intimately connected to power, both used as a force for the powerful as well as a mechanism for the redistribution of power. While I individually believe peaceful remonstration and social defiance are the preferable ways to speak truth to power that won’t listen, crowd sourced intellect, and surveillance techniques indisputably are and certainly will be used by those with vicious agendas as well.
It’s worth reflecting in these conditions that, more oppressive regulatory regimes will not prevent the use of our technological tools against us, that the long term solutions to problems like this will not involve more regulation or the use of force of arms but rather the construction of political and economic frameworks that include a voice for those who are presently marginalized and therefore seek to make their point via violence and destruction.
Continuity of knowledge and society does have merit. However, there are times when this view of technology must be discarded, because it can be terribly wrong and lead us to a primary misunderstanding of the potential significance of technology in social, political and economic change. However technological change isn’t success but rather a troubling matter. Therefore it is rightly said, ‘A fool having a sophisticated tool is still a fool’. Ultimately it depends on the psychology of an individual on how he uses this man made technology i.e. for construction or destruction…..
Sherwin Azavedo
Manager: Cyber Crime Complaint
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