Reflections on a possible socialist-inspired technology
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technologies of socialist inspiration, technological alternatives, technological imaginaries, innovation in conditions of scarcityAbstract
There is a need to have technologies inspired by values and interests different from those prevailing in capitalism if we want to achieve a different and an egalitarian social order that does not put the future of the planet at risk. The difficulties of achieving them are analyzed, both generally and specifically "from the South" and it is shown that there are also strengths on which to lean. A way of understanding "technologies of socialist inspiration" is proposed and there are suggestions to open up conditions of possibility for them.
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