In recent years, dreams about our technological future have soured as digital platforms have undermined privacy, eroded labor rights, and weakened democratic discourse. In light of the negative consequences of innovation, some …
Read More >By Roberto J. González , author of War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future The time is a year after tomorrow. The place is the United States …
Read More >Excerpted from American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford by Roland De Wolk The origins of the Stanford campus and the Silicon Valley it has incubated, borne, and sustained could not …
Read More >The future of food is inevitably a political and communal thing, and it demands open inquiry and discussion. We get to ask questions over the figurative or literal dinner table.
Read More >“Uber didn’t invent the idea that its technology would be neutral. That comes from a Silicon Valley idea.” —Alex Rosenblat, technology ethnographer and author of Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules …
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