Abstract
The presumed “revolutionary” promise of information technology and computers is self-serving and ideological. Computer advocates have not thought through the poUtical dimensions of their so-called revolution, but are as naively Utopian as the enthusiastic apologists for earlier technologies. Concludes by suggesting the parameters for a serious study of computers and politics, and argues for the need to analyze the fundamental conditions of social life that would leave people in a position to control their technologies.
Computer power to the people is essential to the realization of a future in which most citizens are informed about, and interested and involved in, the processes of government.
J. C. R. Licklider
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Winner, L. (1986). Myth Information: Romantic Politics in the Computer Revolution. In: Mitcham, C., Huning, A. (eds) Philosophy and Technology II. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4512-8_20
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