Strava‑style Technocracy

The article argues a cultural pivot from team sports to app‑tracked endurance mirrors politics shifting from community‑based participation to platform‑mediated governance. In this model, citizens interact as datafied individuals with a centralized digital system (e.g., digital IDs), concentrating power in the platform’s operators. — It warns that platformized governance can sideline communal politics and entrench technocratic control, reshaping rights and accountability.