Big Tech has concentrated vast economic power with the collusion of states, which has resulted in expanded surveillance, spiraling disinformation and weakened workers' rights. TNI’s 11th flagship State of Power report exposes the actors, the strategies and the implications of this digital power grab, and shares ideas on how movements might bring technology back under popular control.
We can draw hope from the way that digital technology is profoundly different and genuinely exceptional from other kinds of technology, which is that digital technology is universal. There's really only one kind of computer we know how to build. It's the Turing complete von Neumann machine. Formally, that is a computer that can run every programme that we know how to write, which means that if there is a computer that is designed to surveil you, there is also a programme that can run on that computer that will frustrate that surveillance.
The illustrations were done by Zoran Svilar and Anđela Janković.
The infographics were done by Evan Clayburg.
Researcher for the infographics: Hannah Hasenberger
The editorial advisory board of State of Power 2023 comprised of Sofia Scasserra, Deepti Bhartur (IT for Change), Nuria del Viso (Fuhem Ecosocial).
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