Description
Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.
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.
Contributors
Janet Abbate, Ben Allen, Paul N. Edwards, Nathan Ensmenger, Mar Hicks, Halcyon M. Lawrence, Thomas S. Mullaney, Safiya Umoja Noble, Benjamin Peters, Kavita Philip, Sarah T. Roberts, Sreela Sarkar, Corinna Schlombs, Andrea Stanton, Mitali Thakor, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Table of Contents
When Did the Fire Start?
Part One | Nothing is Virtual
1 The Cloud is a Factory
2 Your AI is a Human
3 A Network is Not a Network
4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized
5 Capture is Pleasure
Part Two | This is an Emergency
6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug
7 Gender is a Corporate Tool
8 Siri Disciplines
9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral
10 Broken is Word
11 You Can't Make Games About Much
Part Three | Where Will the Fire Spread?
12 Coding is Not Empowerment
13 Source Code Isn't
14 Skills Will Not Set You Free
15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire
16 Typing is Dead
How to Stop Worrying about Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise
How Do We Live Now? In the Aftermath of Ourselves
