I didn’t disagree-vote and I’m not sure what those people are disagreeing about.
I think your point is reasonable and novel among the comments or Twitter replies. I don’t have a strong take on “lock-in,” though; I guess it’s definitely possible to imagine some technology that creates lock-in but in general I think it’s overrated. For example, I don’t think mass surveillance per se creates lock-in for governance, and I don’t think the American Constitution has “locked us in” to its words as much as others say.
I do think that governance in general changes over time as technology changes in somewhat deterministic ways, e.g. I think that it intuitively seems correct that over the last 100 years democracy and parliamentarianism has gradually been replaced by administrative rule because the balance of military power has changed: masses can’t be used by counter-elites to threaten the state the way they could during the age where amateur riflemen were an important military power, roughly between the American Revolution and Spanish Civil War.
I didn’t disagree-vote and I’m not sure what those people are disagreeing about.
I think your point is reasonable and novel among the comments or Twitter replies. I don’t have a strong take on “lock-in,” though; I guess it’s definitely possible to imagine some technology that creates lock-in but in general I think it’s overrated. For example, I don’t think mass surveillance per se creates lock-in for governance, and I don’t think the American Constitution has “locked us in” to its words as much as others say.
I do think that governance in general changes over time as technology changes in somewhat deterministic ways, e.g. I think that it intuitively seems correct that over the last 100 years democracy and parliamentarianism has gradually been replaced by administrative rule because the balance of military power has changed: masses can’t be used by counter-elites to threaten the state the way they could during the age where amateur riflemen were an important military power, roughly between the American Revolution and Spanish Civil War.