“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.” – Ursula K. Le Guin As Ursula K. Le Guin argues, rapacious billionaire capitalism is neither natural nor inescapable. Yet, as Srnicek and Williams (2015) contend (and we agree), few viable alternatives have emerged to challenge this new gilded age’s concentration of wealth. It is a failure of political imagination. There are viable post-billionaire futures. Emergent technologies of the 21st century—in particular Generative AI—seem a nightmare of billionaire neo-robber-barons imposed on us all to…
Author: John Sherrill
Michael Salvo, John Sherrill
Dr. John T. Sherrill is a visiting assistant teaching professor at Michigan Technological University. He is the co-author, with Michael Salvo, of Artificial Infrastructures (WAC Clearinghouse, 2025 https://wac.colostate.edu/books/practice/artificial/), an open-access book that analyzes how AI is reshaping technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.