our hackers aren’t smashing the system; they’re fiddling with it so that they can get more work done. In this vision, it’s up to individuals to accommodate themselves to the system rather than to try to reform it. The shrinking of political imagination that accompanies such attempts at doing more with less usually goes unremarked
Evgeny Morozov: Hackers, Makers, and the Next Industrial Revolution : The New Yorker
I know Morozov’s style can be infuriating, but I am grateful he’s willing to tirelessly continue to point out contemporary tech culture’s political shortcomings.