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yes, and this large part of the population does not therefore have the means to become a technoserf.

Why not? Non-engineers seems always be the most eager to use the cloud to the most extreme.

It is your tech-illiterate friends that hook you into the toxic cloud merely by having your contact information.

Technology changes social interactions.

The cloud isn't free though, neither is shopping on amazon. Private Email (protonmail) starts at... 4 dollars a month... In light of this, are "technoserfs" who use and pay for the cloud (on not so cheap mobile phone, mind you) really the victims? Or are they just regular people who rate certain things as higher priority than others, and it is that hierarchy that displeases Mr Varoufakis so much.

For the rest of your point, everything (class, affluence, age, technology, etc...) changes social interaction, all the time, always.

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