Sí. Lo que requiere son dos pasos. Uno de ellos es reformar el modelo económico. Cambiar las redes sociales de forma que el verdadero cliente sea el usuario, en vez de esa misteriosa tercera persona que está intentando manipular al usuario.

Commonwealth Edison of Chicago will get an IBM of the ‘700 series’ soon which will calculate and print the bills for 1,800,000 customers, use 270 clerks where 470 are now employed, and take only half the time. It will store a ‘memory’ of the past record of every customer, and if the current bill seems too low or too high, it will ask for a new meter reading.

The most important principle of the monopoly capital tradition is that of “the present as history”—a focus on the historical specificity that separates the various modes, stages, and phases of production and accumulation, and its application to our understanding of the present.