At the dawn of the digital revolution the internet was going to be the great equalizer a
global democratic force. Instead with the money printed electronically to bail out banks Wall
Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists the Techtitans who embraced rapid
transformational change while stripping their workers of rights and enriching themselves beyond
anybody's wildest imagination and the Space Barons who mine new frontiers for precious
resources. Then came the gig-economy another supposed digital equalizer where everybody was
their own boss but it was just another illusion. Tech pioneers like Google Facebook Apple
Uber and Microsoft never had any intention of spreading democracy. Those who control and own
the technology are the absolute masters. As artificial intelligence enters the labor market
companies like Uber are able to cut labor costs to the barest of minimums by squeezing
workers' privileges and rights. In Techno-Capitalism Napoleoni describes these phenomena as
the genesis of a new paradigm born in a period of extraordinary change in which the
acceleration of transformational change has caused a dizzying anxiety-induced paralysis from
the FTX collapse to AI private space companies to the war in Ukraine from inflation to the
dirty environmental truth of EV car batteries. Technological transformation is occurring at a
speed that is existentially unbearable for most of us. We must fight for our common good to
address today's real challenges of global warming and militarism and the soulessness of
capitalist endeavor. Napoleoni shows us how--
