Hacking Our Way Out of a Cyberpunk Future
But even when Y2K didn’t bring about the end of the world, it did leave you with these unshakable feelings of both vulnerability (because it showed just how much technology controlled our lives) and oppression (because it showed just how much technology controlled our lives). And this made you want to believe that, maybe, there was still a world be
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The tech industry currently stands at a crossroads. At the twilight of social media, adtech, and crypto bull markets (bubbles?), tech workers and consumers are simultaneously exhausted by tech and starving for more. Shiny trends like Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality stand on the sidelines ready to transform latent frustrations into newfang... See more
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
can be profound. Often it begins with the introduction of a new technology, which brings with it decreased progress in racial relations but also the seeds of a renewal of progress as marginalized people adopt and become proficient with the new technology. And then, when an even newer technology arises, the cycle begins again.
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
So a lot of the scenarios in my projects that seem to hinge ludicrously across dystopia and utopia—another set of unproductive binaries we’ve created—are actually machine-generated.
On Technology and Humanity: Alice Bucknell and Her Alternative Worlds
Technology, understood as our interface with the material world, is that human practice which most closely ties us to our context and our environment.