If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
Have you ever wondered...
What is the role of labor in the tech industry?
How does Big Tech influence economic, education, housing, and criminal justice policy?
What does class have to do with internet access?
Is Google reading my emails?
How can I take control of the technology in my life instead of it controlling me?
How does Facebook make money?
🌹 💻 The NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group wants to help you find answers 💻 🌹
🌹 💻 The NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group wants to help you find answers 💻 🌹
🌹 💻 The NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group wants to help you find answers 💻 🌹
We're developing a socialist perspective on technology and society,
creating alternatives to the status quo,
and thinking up strategies to challenge the tech industry's growing power.
Principles on Technology
Friday, May 09, 2025
Introduction
What is technology? We start by taking a broad approach, and define technology as any purposive application of human knowledge and tools that mediates our relationship with the world. Under capitalism, the enclosure and privatization of technology ultimately serves to maximize profit and power for the elite, while robbing......