The Perils of Centralized Power in the Digital Age

The ongoing takeover of U. S. government computer network by a small cadre of radical technologists—with the blessing of the current president of the United States—demonstrates just how vulnerable democratic norms and organizations are to determined technologists who understand the central role of computers and the information stored on them in any modern organization. With the federal IT infrastructure now increasingly under the control of this group—under what is now being revealed as the false banner of efficiency—the…