Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at Tallinn University of Technology and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University. He is the founder of P2P Lab and a founding member of an energy community and a rural makerspace in Greece.
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By: Vasilis Kostakis
A growing alliance of tech billionaires is accelerating the political trend towards authoritarianism. Not because they hate voting in principle, but because genuine democracy might impose limits: on wealth, on extraction, on the fantasy of endless growth. Read more about tech authoritarianism and the fight for 2026 in this piece.
By: Vasilis Kostakis
The world crumbles around us. Wealth inequality is deepening while the human species is facing an existential crisis. Despite calls to accept neoliberalism as inevitable, our situation is not hopeless. However, placing hope in yet-to-materialize technology to address ecological crises and wealth inequality is audacious. Narratives like “green growth”, “ecomodernism”, and...