Christopher Coenen
Political scientist working in the field of technology assessment (TA), based at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and researching transhumanism and digital capitalism since the 1990s.
Session
05-15
21:15
45min
The Tech Oligarchy’s Attack on Humanity – Analysis and Call to Action
Christopher Coenen
The rise of a transnational oligarchy centred in the US is one of the most striking political features of the post-socialist digital age in which we have been living since the 1990s. So-called ‘Big Tech’ has played a key role in this, in alliance with (other) anti-democratic and openly reactionary forces. In this talk, I will present an analysis of this development and propose concrete steps to combat it.
Ethics, Politics and Society
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