The promise of technology is to simplify ones life, freeing time for individual pursuits
The trap of technology is sufficiently advanded technology is indistinguisable from magic; that those whom it was created to serve worship or serve it in misunderstanding its purpose
Demonstrable evidence of Civil Ownership:
CyviZen technology does one thing, and one thing only, ownership via Renitent; with secondary technologies augmened by Renitent for needs of DeniZens (those with a Digital Self in CyberSpace)
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clark
- Any advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is distinguished by being powerful.
- Any advanced magic is distinguished by being complex to perform.
- Anything complex to perform is for specialists or magicians.
- Any sufficiently advanced specialist is distinguished by their power.
- Any sufficiently advanced power is liable to control others.
- Any sufficiently advanced social control uses technology.
- Any sufficiently advanced magic must conceal its mode of operation.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology tends to be opaque.
- Any sufficiently opaque technology tends to be unjust.
- Any injustice may appear to be technology or magic, when it is really human design.
- Any sufficiently advanced design will aim to be big business.
- Any sufficiently advanced business will push people to the side.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Internet is a sufficiently advanced technology that is completely opaque.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology that is opaque is a dictatorship.
- We demand an Internet that doesn’t seem like magic.
- On the Internet we need less magic and more online political culture.
