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October 14, 2003
Ghettos in the Wireless City
I've mentioned William J. Mitchell a few times on my blog, usually with some degree of skepticism, but Anne recently raised an important critique of his brand of techno-utopianism that I think I've been neglecting:
His talk was far too utopian for me - there was absolutely no critical awareness or discussion of the social implications.More later, perhaps, but I've got a full plate today--I'm moving towards drafting my paper on blogging.I asked him: If we are to focus on people rather than technology, which people are we talking about? If being mobile is the way of the future, what will happen to people who are not? And what will ghettos look like in the wireless city?
He had no answers. Well, actually, he said that all technologies have raised these same issues, that these are policy problems ...
Um, okay. Thanks.
Posted by chuck at October 14, 2003 1:02 PM
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