Every Tool Shapes the Task

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Crit Tech Ursula Franklin

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the moment somebody who was in opposition became government, there seemed to be a profound change in their outlook

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it is the extra parliamentary opposition that provides the building blocks of democracy.

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Genuine democracy cannot and does not work if there are disenfranchised constituencies.

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technology is a means to mediate the relationship between space and time.

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horizontal communication begins to take preference over vertical communication.

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On the other hand, the horizontal movement of money is incredibly easy.

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When that became evidence in the aftermath of the war, the Germans were asked, “And what was your responsibility?” In the Germany of my childhood, the standard response was, “We didn’t know.” We didn't know—sometimes it was true, sometimes not, but the response meant that, had we known, we would surely have done something

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while the knowledge of facts may be a necessary condition for action, and we talk about democracy in civic action, it is unfortunately not a sufficient one.

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channels to power that are not blocked and a responsive agency of power

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those in power are very well informed but ill-intentioned.

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possible to use information, and the need for information, as a delay for the call for action.

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enormous amount of information that has nothing to do with anything. There is a sort of civic landfill

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certain amount of information needed, but not more.

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they are mapping the terrain in order to find a strategy to get around all those lumps and hills that have been mapped.

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purpose was primarily to avoid trouble rather than to do the right thing.

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Learn what is in this Internet. But then keep your head clear and go back to your goals. What in fact, in the best of all worlds, do you want to do?

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The potential of cyberspace as a global dump is quite substantial.

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We all have to worry about justice.

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