By Audrey Watters ~ Transcript of a talk given at Scratch AMS 2015 When I first started to think about what I wanted to say here today, I thought I’d talk about innovation and how confused if not backwards the… Read More ›
techno-utopianism
The Social Construction of Acceleration
a review of Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (Chicago, 2014) by Zachary Loeb ~ Patience seems anachronistic in an age of high speed downloads, same day deliveries, and on-demand assistants who can be… Read More ›
Towards a Bright Mountain: Laudato Si’ as Critique of Technology
by Zachary Loeb ~ “We hate the people who make us form the connections we do not want to form.” – Simone Weil 1. Repairing Our Common Home When confronted with the unsettling reality of the world it is easy… Read More ›
Is the Network a Brain?
a review of Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future (University of Chicago Press, 2011) by Jonathan Goodwin ~ Evgeny Morozov’s recent New Yorker article about Project Cybersyn in Allende’s Chile caused some controversy when critics accused Morozov… Read More ›
What Drives Automation?
a review of Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us (W.W. Norton, 2014) by Mike Bulajewski ~ Debates about digital technology are often presented in terms of stark polar opposites: on one side, cyber-utopians who champion the new and… Read More ›
Our Very Own Francis Bacon
a review of Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by LM Sacasas ~ Few individuals have done as much to chart the course of science and technology in the modern world as… Read More ›
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