Multimillion fines are just the start for Facebook and Google,as the world comes to realise how political mammoth tech has becomeIn his wonderful book The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began, the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt traces the origins of the Renaissance back to the rediscovery of a 2000-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished) poem by Lucretius, or De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). The book is a riveting explanation of how a huge cultural shift can ultimately spring from faint stirrings in the undergrowth.
Professor Greenblatt is probably not interested in the giant corporations that now dominate our world,but I am, and in the spirit of The Swerve I’ve been looking for signs that mammoth changes might be on the way. You don’t have to dig very deep to find them.
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Source: theguardian.com