The transformation is already complete, not an impending technological future

Evidence

Before saying a little more on this, I must emphasise that this is not a book about what technology will do to us. It is not about AI-chatbots that will take over our jobs, autonomous robots that will threaten our lives, or Mark Zuckerberg’s ill-conceived metaverse. No, this book is about what has already been done to capitalism, and therefore to us, by the screen-based, cloud-linked devices we all use, our boring laptop and our smartphone, in conjunction with the way central banks and governments have been acting since 2008. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 13

Categorization

• XREF: Reframes platform/fintech debate from ‘what will AI do’ toward ‘what has the smartphone already done’ — useful counter-frame for the reader’s research. — connects to: Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks; Modernity’s future is a teleology already accomplished, at once open and closed — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 1279

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s future is a teleology already accomplished, at once open and closed #corroborates (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1279
• Transformative change is gradual within continuities, not clean breaks #qualifies (0.75)