This is why concrete, corporeal, and ideological struggles over the nature and meaning of technology are so important in the realm of virtual politics. It is also why the specifically neoliberal discourse of the virtual class needs to be countered. The pan-capitalist revolution and the development from industrial to virtual production have generated the neoliberal discourse of technology. Consequently, many human activities are no longer simply mediated through technology. The ambitions of the neoliberal discourse of technology are not only unremitting but also potentially infinite.
Totalitarianism is latent in technology.
It is not simply the virtual class that is totalitarian. Totalitarianism is always present in technology itself. On this view, then, humanity is not on the verge of the kind of technological and democratic revolution envisaged by the neoliberals. What separates a critical interpretation of technology from that of global technological entrepreneurs and leading politicians is a determination to forge a radical understanding of technology's consequences. The advantage of this kind of analysis is that it focuses on key aspects of technology that are rarely, if ever, voiced by computer manufacturers and political pundits.