The Center for Humane… https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/02/09/the-center-for-humane-technology-doesnt-want-your-attention/
We’re really bad at being dispassionate about non-social technologies, but even worse about social technologies (by which I mean: political systems, power relations).
Social structure is a technology, but it’s one that most self-identified techies are ill-equipped to debug, mainly due to bigotry against properly studying it.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
Solder History: The Unsung Hero of Digital Electronics https://tedium.co/2018/01/25/soldering-technology-history/
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
OkCupid begins e… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/okcupid-begins-enforcing-real-name-rules-insists-its-a-good-idea/
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality
Facebook’s fake news experiment backfires - BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41900877
Machine learning hobbyist Janelle Shane talks about her wacky neural nets. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/08/machine_learning_hobbyist_janelle_shane_talks_about_her_wacky_neural_nets.html
Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
Расследование РБК: как «фабрика троллей» поработала на выборах в США :: Технологии и медиа :: РБК http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/17/10/2017/59e0c17d9a79470e05a9e6c1
Exocortices: A Definition of a Technology - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/10/exocortices-definition-technology/
When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html
Summit Powder Mountain and the Architecture of Utopia - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/the-architecture-of-utopia/539109/
The Dumb Fact of Google Money - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/the-dumb-fact-of-google-money/538458/
How Silicon Valley’s past predicts its future: an interview with Ellen Ullman - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16215836/ellen-ullman-life-in-code-interview-technology-ai
Tim Harford — Article — What We Get Wrong About Technology http://timharford.com/2017/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-technology/
Eliminating the Human - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608580/eliminating-the-human/
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/
Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces With "Secure Scuttlebutt" - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/
The Technology of the Cloud Index — James Bridle http://cloudindx.com/technology/
The Best Keyboard Ever Is Back http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a27123/model-f-project-buckling-spring-keyboard/
Humans and machines can make beautiful music together. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/07/humans_and_machines_can_make_beautiful_music_together.html?curator=MusicREDEF
Facebotlish: Understanding an AI‘s Non-Human Language - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/what-an-ais-non-human-language-actually-looks-like/530934/?utm_source=atltw
Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and the Normalization of Conspiracy Culture - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/the-normalization-of-conspiracy-culture/530688/?curator=MediaREDEF
Binky: The App That Does Nothing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/the-app-that-does-nothing/529764/?utm_source=feed
More science fiction can help us create a better tomorrow. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/06/more_science_fiction_can_help_us_create_a_better_tomorrow.html
How AI Can Keep Accelerating After Moore’s Law - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607917/how-ai-can-keep-accelerating-after-moores-law/
Shanzhai Archeology: defying our standardized technological imagination – We Make Money Not Art http://we-make-money-not-art.com/shanzhai-archeology-defying-our-standardized-technological-imagination/
We can teach women to code, but that just creates another problem | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/tech-women-code-workshops-developer-jobs
AI’s Language Problem - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-problem/
I think we sometimes forget that even with all the advanced web technologies, you can still share your ideas with a simple text file.
New build farm hardware at TUD
To quote
Eelco Visser: new
hardware for buildfarm at Delft University of Technology has
arrived.
Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more