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“We find ourselves constantly in the position of having to decide about things that will fundamentally impact our lives, but without the knowledge required to make such decisions responsibly.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Against Progress

“We need lots of tech, run by lots of different kinds of people and organizations, and we need to make it as close to costless as possible to switch from one to the other.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

“It’s not so much that the majority of people are fooled, it is basically that they don’t care - their main concern is that their relatively stable life goes on undisturbed. The majority doesn’t want actual democracy in which they would really decide: they want the appearance of democracy where they freely vote, but some higher authority which they trust presents them with a choice and then simultaneously shows them how they should vote.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“I could write an entire (tedious) book about why I think blockchain-based technologies are foolish at best and scams at worst, but it wouldn’t convince anyone in blockchainland of anything.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation