Future histories : what Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital technology /: what Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital technology. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lizzie O'Shea.
• Authors: O'Shea, Lizzie
• Contents: We need a usable past for a democratic future : a Spanish prince's automaton and an American novelist's living history -- An internet built around consumption is a bad place to live : cityscapes, as imagined by Sigmund Freud and Jane Jacobs -- Digital surveillance cannot make us safe : policing bodies and time on London's docks -- Technology is as biased as its makers : exploding cars, racist algorithms, and design beholden to the bottom line -- Technological utopianism is dangerous : the tech billionaires have nothing on the Paris Commune -- Collaborative work is liberating and effective : poetical philosophy, from Lovelace to Linux -- Digital citizenship is a collective endeavor : Tom Paine's revolutionary idea of public participation -- Automation can mean less work and more living : downing tools so we can build robots to eat the rich -- We need digital self-determination, not just privacy : Frantz Fanon theorizes freedom -- The digital world is an environment that needs to be cared for : ancient forms of governance hold relevance for modern infrastructure -- Protect the digital commons! : socialize the cows.
• Publisher Details: London Broklyn, NY : Verso
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 328 pages.)
• Subjects: 004; Computer science -- Philosophy; Automation -- Social aspects; Digital communications -- Political aspects; Technology -- History; Automation -- Social aspects; Computer science -- Philosophy; Technology; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788734325; 1788734327
• Related ISBNs: 9781788734301; 1788734300
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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