I promise this will take a lot less time than reading the hyperlinks, the government’s latest 382 page report and watching the literally hours of lectures, talks & video I’ve included. There’s also GIF’s, because that’s how you get people to read stuff these days, apparently.
Since completing a degree in which I pertain to be a ‘Master’ of The International Politics of the Internet, I still find myself endlessly confused by the fast paced landscape of technological policy and both simultaneously in awe of, and infuriated by those I read daily, reporting and writing about it.
Having spent the past year attempting to attain gainful employment, I have stumbled upon no end of job suggestions, interview tips and procrastinating clickbait entitled ‘things all twenty-something’s are finally figuring out’. Apparently, I am not qualified for anything, yet if I am to believe such articles, “everyone is totally just winging it, all the time” anyway.
If this really is true, then my fear of inevitably failing, misunderstanding or completely missing the boat is also something Quinn Norton, Stephen Levy,Susan Crawford,Manoush Zomorodi, Tim Wu, Madeline Carr, Andrea Calderaro, Helen Margetts and countless others I idolise, and whose content I vigorously consume like a hungry honey badger, have also been through.
On the other hand, if it’s not true, and my incessant confusion about how to effectively craft policy around something which is literally infusing every iota of our existence on an unprecedented scale is a misnomer, and a mere failure to grasp the actual big picture, then I implore those reading to stop doing so and immediately attempt to regain the minute or so’s worth of inane scrolling I have so cruelly taken from you. However, I’m 99% sure I’m not wrong about that, so here. goes. nothing.One thing that certainly is clear, is that the intersections between politics, economics, society and technology have never been so grey and foggy.
The West’s reliance onlaissez-faire back-seat regulation and the principle of a self-governing multi-stakeholder marketplace has actually done well in getting us this far, but at some point during the past five years, these grey intersections have become worn, overpopulated and full of ever deepening pot-holes that only well crafted and effective policy and governance can fill in and smooth over. Mary Cummings, an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University has recently stated herself on the subject of drones, that “People want to blame the technology when it is policy that is the real culprit.” Professor Mary is right, and this applies to more than just drones.
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