Disnovation
The mantra that innovation is socially positive and that it must, therefore, be encouraged at all costs to generate a dynamic economy has, till very recently, been widely accepted as true across the political spectrum from the neoliberal right to social democrats. In recent years, however, technology’s disruptive impact on society has made many sceptical. Disnovation postulates that another innovation is possible or, at least, that it is possible to overcome the Silicon Valley brand of fetishism and technological determinism.