Don’t trust the inevitability myth touted by the tech determinists | John Naughton

An abandoned Australian ‘experiment’ shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progressScratch a digital capitalist and you’ll find a technological determinist – someone who believes that technology drives history. These people see themselves as agents of what Joseph Schumpeter famously described as “creative destruction”. They revel in “moving fast and breaking things” as the Facebook found