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. Thus, it is vital to resist both the neoliberal discourse of technology and the contemporary development of pan-capitalism. In the specific context of the political debates over the discourse of cyberculture, then, it is important to question the uncritical and antidemocratic conception of technology presently being elaborated and disseminated by the virtual class in its quest for actual wealth and power.