Rethinking Technological Positivism with Cory Doctorow
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English - June 15, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsTechnology Education How To haskell scala coding functionalprogramming typescript Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Self-driving cars or armed autonomous military robots may make use of the same technologies. In a certain sense, we as software developers are helping to build and shape the future. What does the future look like and are we helping build the right one? Is technology a force for liberty or oppression.
Cory Doctorow is one of my favorite authors and also a public intellectual with a keen insight into the dangers we face a society. In this interview, I ask him how to avoid ending up in a techno-totalitarian society. We also talk about Turing, DRM, data mining and monopolies.
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