Toward Emancipation Through a Regenerative Digital Economy

Abstract

Let us imagine a different future. Not one where a handful of corporations control and exploit our data - or own the machines and the algorithms that render our jobs obsolete. Not one where the current state of digital servitude becomes actual economic servitude of the medieval kind. Not the sci-fi dystopias of social wastelands, environmental degradation, and abject poverty. Instead, let us consider the possibility that we the people, the workers, the communities, and the citizens exercise our inalienable right to control our destiny. And that, instead of letting a small minority enjoy the bountiful rewards of an automated future, we claim that future for ourselves too.