1980s techies: Imagine a World Wide Web where all human knowledge can be shared and accessed by everyone.
2020s techbros: We will steal every word you’ve ever shared, every artwork you’ve ever displayed, lock them away in datasets without your permission, then sell them all back to you, but shite.
Capitalism has always been defined in part by processes of enclosure...
Enclosure 1.0 - Seizure of common lands and resources
2.0 - privatization; deregulation that destroys ecosystems
3.0 - use of tech to seize the commons of imagination, cognition, communication and creativity.
- Max Haiven
