Freire died precisely as the ubiquitous digital age began

Evidence

Freire died in 1997. In that year, world champion chess player Garry Kasparov was defeated by IBM’s Deep Blue computer; the Mars Pathfinder successfully landed on Mars and started sending images in real time; the lithium-ion battery, which today powers all our mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, entered commercial use; Bill Gates became the world’s richest businessman; search engine Google and social network Facebook went online (Computer Hope, 2019). — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1123

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to chapters 10 and 17 on tech firms courting schools and platform power. — connects to: The postdigital mashup of digital and analog allows computing the incomputable — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1135
• FICTION: A biographical hinge: a thinker of liberation dies at the exact boundary of the surveillance-data age, never seeing it.