My Alternative Tech Canon: 26 Mind-Expanding Books
the subject of digital technology and spaces focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might do to us.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
La fusion de l’infotech et de la biotech menace les valeurs modernes centrales que sont la liberté et l’égalité. Toute solution au défi technologique passe par une coopération mondiale. Le nationalisme, la religion et la culture divisent cependant l’humanité en camps hostiles au point de rendre très difficile la coopération à l’échelle planétaire.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
“All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines,”
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
In 1985, the great technology critic Neil Postman wrote, “to be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”17 The corollary is also true: to have no program t
... See moreEzra Klein • Abundance
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:
- We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.
- We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of