Governing Techno-Futures: OECD Anticipation of Automation and the Multiplication of Managerialism

【Author】 Campbell-Verduyn, Malcolm; Huetten, Moritz

【Source】GLOBAL SOCIETY

【影响因子】0.000

【Abstract】How do international organisations (IOs) govern the present based on claims about the coming impacts of technological change? Drawing on primary documents and participant observation, this article traces how the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) anticipates automation emanating from the growing integration of blockchain technologies in global governance. We find that promises of radical, rapid, and reckless automation advanced by promoters of Bitcoin and other 'defiant' applications of the technology are steered by this IO towards more incremental and carefully managed forms of automation. The OECD relies on two managerialist practices to anticipate "reckless automation" through the promotion of what we identify as "responsible disruption". In combination, OECD practices of scenario building and shared orientation framework construction deepen and extend managerial forms of global governance today whose technocratic and expert-led nature limits democratic possibilities and perpetuates global inequalities.

【Keywords】Automation; blockchain; governance; inequality; international organisations; managerialism; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; technology

【发表时间】2022 APR 3

【收录时间】2022-05-19

【文献类型】实证性文章

【主题类别】

区块链治理-法律治理-法律法规