Out to subscribers just under the wire, this week we wrap up that giant digital tech essay I've been wrestling with for a month.

Today's component starts with some free-to-read philosophy, care of Heidegger, before paid subscribers and I look at three case studies from the history of modern computer tech: times when state systems and/or personal drives for monopoly crushed attempts to build a more inclusive and self-liberating world.

#Technology #History #Democracy
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-digital-tech-utopia-we-didnt-d73