This video was recorded live at the conference "Unboxing: Algorithms, Data and Democracy" organised by Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation on December 3 in Berlin. A paper by Berliner Gazette – Big Data in Our Hands? – served as a starting point for discussions.
Lecture: Evgeny Morozov (02:54)
03:08: Let me start with a few hopefully punchy statements, that might set the stage for discussion tonight, and hopefully try to create at least some background to understanding why an idea like technological sovereignty is actually worth fighting for — and what it actually is.
So, I'll start with one of the words in the title of our event, which is neoliberalism. I think there is a discussion now after Brexit, certainly after the victory of Trump in the US elections, about the future of neoliberalism. Now, a lot of people seem to be convinced that neoliberalism is over, that we must talk about something called 'post-neoliberalism', or we must start talking about something completely different.
