Scenario 2
Platform Power
This Scenario tests the limits of a privatised future where only a few big tech companies own and manage the vast majority of digital cable infrastructure, leaving states competing for their services and market forces leading to worsening inequality in an exaggerated world of connectivity haves and have-nots.
“I just turned 18 and you would think I’d be excited about finally getting a right to vote.
It’s true that I used to be excited about the possibility of having a say in who is elected to run our country.
But what is the point in voting when it’s not really governments who decide some of the most important stuff that controls how we live and talk to each other, and how we access stuff we need like healthcare and transport and, whatever.”
Frustrated teenager, 18, in a country dominated by the ‘Cable Kings’
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