https://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Technology_creates_power&feed=atom&action=historyTechnology creates power - Revision history2024-03-29T09:52:34ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.0https://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Technology_creates_power&diff=785&oldid=prevWoozle: Woozle moved page Political power comes from technology to Technology creates power: more succinct2015-05-31T23:25:40Z<p>Woozle moved page <a href="/w/Political_power_comes_from_technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Political power comes from technology">Political power comes from technology</a> to <a href="/w/Technology_creates_power" title="Technology creates power">Technology creates power</a>: more succinct</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The more powerful technology becomes, the more power an individual can gain over others by picking up that technology and using it offensively. The more technology there is available and the more technology defines our lives, the easier it is for that to happen.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The more powerful technology becomes, the more power an individual can gain over others by picking up that technology and using it offensively. The more technology there is available and the more technology defines our lives, the easier it is for that to happen.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Woozlehttps://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Technology_creates_power&diff=206&oldid=prevWoozle: moved opening paragraph to end; expanded new opening paragraph2014-12-08T12:35:02Z<p>moved opening paragraph to end; expanded new opening paragraph</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Political power &ndash; power over other people &ndash; does not ''come from'' [[government]]; it exists whether there is government or not. '''Government is how we channel and control that power''' in order to minimize harm. It often fails spectacularly, and the mechanisms for channelling may become their own hazard, but that is true of any power-conduit. '''Failures of government are not evidence against the ''necessity'' of government.'''</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The more <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">powerful </ins>technology <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">becomes</ins>, the more power an individual can gain over others by picking up that technology and using it offensively<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. The more technology there is available and the more technology defines our lives, the easier it is for that to happen</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This doesn't mean just physical weaponry, either. It means financial instruments, operating systems, religious beliefs, mass-media outlets &ndash; anything that one person (or a small group with a shared agenda) can use to exert a statistically predictable influence on the behavior of many, many others.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This doesn't mean just physical weaponry, either. It means financial instruments, operating systems, religious beliefs, mass-media outlets &ndash; anything that one person (or a small group with a shared agenda) can use to exert a statistically predictable influence on the behavior of many, many others.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is artificially-powered projectile weapons, or the ability to know where someone is at any moment of the day, safety can only truly be obtained by constraining the source &ndash; preventing people from owning excessively powerful weapons or from being allowed ad-lib access to networked devices you might own.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is artificially-powered projectile weapons, or the ability to know where someone is at any moment of the day, safety can only truly be obtained by constraining the source &ndash; preventing people from owning excessively powerful weapons or from being allowed ad-lib access to networked devices you might own.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Political power <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">comes </del>from <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">technology</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Political power <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&ndash; power over other people &ndash; does not ''come </ins>from<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' [[government]]; it exists whether there is government or not. '''Government is how we channel and control that power''' in order to minimize harm. It often fails spectacularly, and the mechanisms for channelling may become their own hazard, but that is true of any power-conduit. '''Failures of government are not evidence against the ''necessity'' of government.''' They are evidence of a need to ''redesign'' government</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''2014-10-19''' "Okay, let's get this straight" ([https://plus.google.com/u/0/109185295204629063487/posts/gSdtWqE4AtY CWRE reshare]): original writing from which this page was adapted</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* '''2014-10-19''' "Okay, let's get this straight" ([https://plus.google.com/u/0/109185295204629063487/posts/gSdtWqE4AtY CWRE reshare]): original writing from which this page was adapted</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Political power <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-- </del>power over other people <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-- </del>does not come from [[government]]; it exists whether there is government or not. Government is how we channel and control that power<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>in order to minimize harm. It often fails spectacularly, and the mechanisms for channelling may become their own hazard, but that is true of any power-conduit. Failures of government are not evidence against the necessity of government.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Political power <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&ndash; </ins>power over other people <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&ndash; </ins>does not <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>come from<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>[[government]]; it exists whether there is government or not. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>Government is how we channel and control that power<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>in order to minimize harm. It often fails spectacularly, and the mechanisms for channelling may become their own hazard, but that is true of any power-conduit. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>Failures of government are not evidence against the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>necessity<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>of government.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The more technology there is, the more power an individual can gain over others by picking up that technology and using it offensively.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The more technology there is, the more power an individual can gain over others by picking up that technology and using it offensively.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This doesn't mean just physical weaponry, either. It means financial instruments, operating systems, religious beliefs, mass-media outlets <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-- </del>anything that one person (or a small group with a shared agenda) can use to exert a statistically predictable influence on the behavior of many, many others.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This doesn't mean just physical weaponry, either. It means financial instruments, operating systems, religious beliefs, mass-media outlets <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&ndash; </ins>anything that one person (or a small group with a shared agenda) can use to exert a statistically predictable influence on the behavior of many, many others.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is just a rock or a heavy bone, the power-differential is fairly small and the safety-zone is large. To be safe from malicious individuals, you just need to keep them at a distance of a few feet.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is just a rock or a heavy bone, the power-differential is fairly small and the safety-zone is large. To be safe from malicious individuals, you just need to keep them at a distance of a few feet.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is human-powered projectile weapons, the power differential is still relatively small <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-- </del>one person with an arrow can still only kill one other person at a time; safety lies just over the hill, or behind a gated wall. It takes a the warriors of one entire village to kill the population of another entire village.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is human-powered projectile weapons, the power differential is still relatively small <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&ndash; </ins>one person with an arrow can still only kill one other person at a time; safety lies just over the hill, or behind a gated wall. It takes a the warriors of one entire village to kill the population of another entire village.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is artificially-powered projectile weapons, or the ability to know where someone is at any moment of the day, safety can only truly be obtained by constraining the source <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">-- </del>preventing people from owning excessively powerful weapons or from being allowed ad-lib access to networked devices you might own.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the technology is artificially-powered projectile weapons, or the ability to know where someone is at any moment of the day, safety can only truly be obtained by constraining the source <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&ndash; </ins>preventing people from owning excessively powerful weapons or from being allowed ad-lib access to networked devices you might own.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Woozlehttps://cwre.org/w/index.php?title=Technology_creates_power&diff=31&oldid=prevWoozle: Created page with "Political power -- power over other people -- does not come from government; it exists whether there is government or not. Government is how we channel and control that po..."2014-11-01T19:11:01Z<p>Created page with "Political power -- power over other people -- does not come from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Government&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Government (page does not exist)">government</a>; it exists whether there is government or not. Government is how we channel and control that po..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Political power -- power over other people -- does not come from [[government]]; it exists whether there is government or not. Government is how we channel and control that power, in order to minimize harm. It often fails spectacularly, and the mechanisms for channelling may become their own hazard, but that is true of any power-conduit. Failures of government are not evidence against the necessity of government.<br />
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The more technology there is, the more power an individual can gain over others by picking up that technology and using it offensively.<br />
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This doesn't mean just physical weaponry, either. It means financial instruments, operating systems, religious beliefs, mass-media outlets -- anything that one person (or a small group with a shared agenda) can use to exert a statistically predictable influence on the behavior of many, many others.<br />
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When the technology is just a rock or a heavy bone, the power-differential is fairly small and the safety-zone is large. To be safe from malicious individuals, you just need to keep them at a distance of a few feet.<br />
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When the technology is human-powered projectile weapons, the power differential is still relatively small -- one person with an arrow can still only kill one other person at a time; safety lies just over the hill, or behind a gated wall. It takes a the warriors of one entire village to kill the population of another entire village.<br />
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When the technology is artificially-powered projectile weapons, or the ability to know where someone is at any moment of the day, safety can only truly be obtained by constraining the source -- preventing people from owning excessively powerful weapons or from being allowed ad-lib access to networked devices you might own.<br />
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Political power comes from technology.<br />
==Links==<br />
* '''2014-10-19''' "Okay, let's get this straight" ([https://plus.google.com/u/0/109185295204629063487/posts/gSdtWqE4AtY CWRE reshare]): original writing from which this page was adapted</div>Woozle