Politics of Technology
Technology is not neutral and does not speak one language: the DMA, the European spectre seen from San Francisco, the price of infrastructural power.
We take for granted that technology is neutral and speaks one language. It isn’t: the name we give a machine decides how we will look at it, and whoever governs it decides who pays. For those looking at Europe from San Francisco our regulation is a spectre; for me it is the first serious attempt to put a price on the exercise of infrastructural power. I write about the DMA, about Apple threatening to leave Europe without Siri, about what it means for a civilisation to choose its own idea of technology.