8 UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE? TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY
Julianne Schultz
In the not so very distant past, before computers became an ordinary element of everyday life, infiltrated into homes, cars, offices and factories, popular images of a possible technological future revolved around two diametrically opposed scenarios.
The first helped to foster a genre which found life in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player piano and in many other books and films. In these, technology was an invisible big brother controlling an enervated, automated and downtrodden population. In the alternative scenario, conjured independently both by those who had experienced the possibilities of participatory politics in the 1960s, and by the nascent high-tech corporate public relations departments, ...
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