Information Technology: Between Utopia and Reality
Информационните технологии: между утопията и реалността

Summary/Abstract: This essay reflects on the ambivalent nature of information technology and its conflicting optimistic and pessimistic interpretations. Emphasis is placed on the new forms of control and manipulation of information described by Christopher Pollmann in his book “Le Totalitarisme informatique” (2024) as “decentralized surveillance” and “generalized self-surveillance.” Attention is drawn to the possibility of erasing various aspects of the human; General Artificial Intelligence as a potential ally of neoliberalism (E. Morozov); as well as the role of transforming science into a business and the loss of its public component (I. Shnurenko) through the lens of scientometrics.

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