Yanis Varoufakis
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Costa is a brilliant but deeply disillusioned computer engineer who creates a revolutionary technology that inadvertently opens a cosmic wormhole, where he discovers a 2025 radically different from the one he's living in. In it, a global hi-tech uprising has birthed a truly democratized, post-capitalist world. Costa and his friends Iris and Eva develop a deep political obsessions with the Other Now, meeting their DNA doubles, but as the wormhole...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the...