Tom Valovic
Tom Valovic is a writer, researcher, and media analyst. He is the author of Digital Mythologies (Rutgers University Press), a series of essays that explored emerging social and cultural issues raised by the advent of the Internet. Tom has served as a consultant to the former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and was editor-in- chief of Telecommunications magazine for many years. He has written about the effects of technology on society, the media, and on environmental issues for a variety of publications including Common Dreams, Columbia University’s Media Studies Journal, Counterpunch, The Technoskeptic, Annals of Earth, the Sierra Club Newsletter, Wisdom magazine, the Whole Earth Review, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Examiner and many others. He can be reached at [email protected].
Is a Mass Revolt Against Technocracy Starting to Happen?
Ted Gioia has a popular Substack called “The Honest Broker.” Although, as an author, his books tend to focus on music and popular culture, he writes eloquently about a wide range of topics and offers insightful commentary about the global forced march toward technocratic lifestyle and governance that we’re now immersed in. In one posting,…
The Global/Local Conundrum: Backing Away from Technocracy
Decades ago, some interesting ideas were in circulation about how to combine global awareness with local action. The phrase “Think globally, act locally” was in vogue and represented an attempt to combine planetary and ecological awareness with actions at the local community level that fostered those values in a pragmatic way. This line of thinking…