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August 26, 2026 — Starting Your Journal’s Digital Detox
We have a chapter in our book (“Trapped in the Tech Shrine”) about how scientific publishers became habituated to taking publishing and business advice from technology vendors.
It became so entrenched that some might wonder who’s in charge.
Today, we find ourselves in the midst of a palpable tech backlash against:
Big Tech oligarchs
Data centers
Techno-authoritarians
Lawsuits are everywhere as extraction and exploitation are challenged, as the energy and economic disruptions of data centers are sparking increasingly organized protests to thwart them, and AI and tech valuations and futures are…
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