Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip · first published 2021
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"This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases in our technological systems, showing how they are not just minor bugs to be patched, but part and parcel of ideas that assume technology can fix--and control--society"--
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I'm working through both The Loop and Your Computer Is On Fire which discuss the authoritarian tendencies of computing as it exists today. Everyone's been saying for years that democracy's at a breaking point, capitalism's at a breaking point, now technology is…
on “Silicon Valley’s Titans Are Realizing a Lot of People Don’t Like Them” ↗…also think there are a lot of people doing good work in STS on these issues. John Cheney-Lippold, Natasha Dow Schüll, Virginia Eubanks, and Adrian Mackenzie are some of my favorites. I'm excited to read Your Computer Is on Fire but I haven't gotten to it yet. Heck, I think 90% of the bad tech hype is covered the old classic Leviathan and the Air-Pump.
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