Marx and Digital Machines Alienation, Technology, Capitalism
"This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels...
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University of Westminster Press
2020
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