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What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it

Tech unexeptionalism and the monopolization of every goddamned thing

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Video duration
00:44:11
Language
English
Abstract
They stole our future. Let's take it back.

Here at the end of the world, it's time to take stock. Is technology a force for good? Can it be? Was it ever? How did we end up with a world made up of "five websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four" (h/t Tom Eastman)? Should we worry that machine learning will take away our free will through A/B splitting and Big Five Personality Types? Where the fuck did all these Nazis come from?

Talk ID
11337
Event:
rc3
Day
1
Room
rC1
Start
7 p.m.
Duration
00:40:00
Track
Ethics, Society & Politics
Type of
lecture
Speaker
doctorow
Talk Slug & media link
rc3-11337-what_the_cyberoptimists_got_wrong_-_and_what_to_do_about_it

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