Epilogue: Digital Roads to Totalitarianism

Vincent F. Hendricks and Mads Vestergaard
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Vincent F. Hendricks: University of Copenhagen
Mads Vestergaard: University of Copenhagen

Chapter Chapter 7 in Reality Lost, 2019, pp 119-137 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The digital revolution was meant to emancipate. In the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace from 1996, John Berry Barlow declares the new digital reality, Cyberspace, to be an independent new world of freedom and equality without oppression of the old world of nation-states ruled by governments. Barlow compares the digital revolution to the American War of Independence and the pioneers of digitalization to the heroes of the American Revolution: “… those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers.”

Keywords: Digital Reality; Social Credit System; Surveillance Capitalism; Credit Scoring; Credit Rating Score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00813-0_7

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