THE TECHNOLOGY OF CONTROL 2.0

De: Keidi Awadu

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

It has been over 25 years since the first publication of The Technology of Control. It has been out of print for more than a decade. Initially, I was reluctant to reprint it in recent years as I have many of my extensive catalog of books from that era – My thought was that it might seem hopelessly obsolete. Yet, there was always a nagging imperative to bring my vast catalog of books back into access for this and future generations.

According to a vast accumulation of disclosures, cold from newspaper articles, technical journals, government leaks, military hardware advertisements, essays obtained from the Internet (the so-called information superhighway), and much work shared among fellow researchers, we can expect an intense development of high and low technologies as instruments of subversion, control, or destruction. These will only further fuel our anxieties.

It has long been the tradition of Western “civilization” as it slashed and burned its way through the foundations of indigenous cultures around the globe to utilize the latest technological innovations toward destructive and coercive aims. Tools and amusements from more peaceful cultures, such as gunpowder and the “firing stick,” have traditionally served northern Barbarians as instruments for subordination – technology of control.