Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival

by Michael Kwet

The world is racing toward an irreversible ecological catastrophe. Environmental science clarifies that humans must reduce total material resource use, requiring a radical redistribution of wealth within and between countries. Yet more attention must be paid to how the digital economy fits into this equation.

Michael Kwet, a leading expert on digital colonialism, presents a new framework for the digital society. Merging the science of degrowth with a global analysis of the high-tech economy, he argues that digital capitalism and colonialism must be abolished quickly.

In Digital Degrowth , Kwet maps a path to a people's tech future. He calls for direct action against Silicon Valley, the US Empire, and power elites everywhere to realize a radically egalitarian digital society that fosters equality in harmony with nature.

Genres: Technology

320 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2024

Reviews

[Elisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this for a book club meeting, skimmed through most of it. We agreed it was quite incendiary and probably intended to draw attention and build "credit" to the author. The facts and figures were really great to put the harsh realities into perspective, and I appreciated the parallels to historical colonialism to illustrate the modern digital ecocide and human rights violations. Wasn't too sure about the proposed solutions, but it's a start