Primavera De Filippi is a member of the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum and a permanent researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She collaborates as associate faculty with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Blockchain Technologies and a co-founder of the Internet Governance Forum’s (IGF) Dynamic Coalitions on Blockchain Technology (COALA).

The usage modes and integrative processes of the technologies we use on a daily basis seem to be shaped and shaped solely through the computing and aesthetic interfaces that filter user-instrument interaction. Yet it is the normative, ethical, and legislative plans that should be at the center of the processes of educating, training, and shaping the development of the technologies we use.

Every new technology brings with it the promise of a technological revolution, but quite often, this promise is not kept. Indeed, rather than generating progress, advances in technology may actually increase inequality, by giving certain social groups even more advantages over other, already disadvantaged groups. Diletta Huyskes turns a spotlight on the paradoxes that the introduction of new technology gives rise to in a volume entitled Technology of the Revolution, published by “il Saggiatore”.