Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech
We must build data infrastructures that embody multiple ways of knowing and understanding our world, and that help us advance both ecological and social ends, before corporations conquer this space for themselves.
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
Whether we’re talking about a smart finance grid, biohacking, drone warfare, space colonization, or universal basic income, technosolutions are too commonly informed by the values inherent in technology itself: exponential growth, automation over human intervention, forward momentum, platformization, and a disregard for existing conditions on the g
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
The algorithms and machine learning that decides whether your child gets health insurance coverage are impossibly opaque and complex.
But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing ... See more
But they are still embodied, even if they appear not to be. They run on silicon and coltan and copper, housed in servers that can be destroyed, hacked, or damaged. Complex legal paperwork can’t stop a bullet piercing ... See more
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These systems have the power to return us to ourselves in new ways.
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
PERPETUAL TRANSFORMATION... AND TO WHAT END
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more
The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.
We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more
Reggie James • Rough Notes: Memory, Identity, and Transformation
We are long past an era in which mainly things were accumulated. Now our bodies and identities assimilate an ever-expanding surfeit of services, images, procedures, chemicals, to a toxic and often fatal threshold.