The emerging digital, decentralised media and politics make disruption and destabilisation easy to achieve. This appears to be the Pandora’s Box of 21st century politics. As Bruce Sterling (author of The Hacker Crackdown and pioneer of the cyberpunk genre) puts it, these modern disruptive movements are “fatally easy to assemble”, “electronically rapid”, “spontaneous and therefore rantingly demagogic, unprepared for power, and tend to be poorly thought-through. Their political results are generally awful.”
