Tag: technology
Mapping the Planetary Costs of AI: Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI in Review
The very first thing to do when even considering employing AI is to look at the power infrastructure that produces it and makes its existence possible in the first place. As Crawford notes, AI is the result of extracting human life through data, raw materials, and labor.
A Hidden History and a Feminist Future: Redesigning the Role of Women in Technology
In general, when a field starts to have an economic value, the tendency of the capitalist system is to try to obtain a monopoly over it. And this is one of the major reasons why women were excluded from computer science.
The End of Cash and the Battle Over Digital Currencies
In an era where digital transformation is reshaping every aspect of our lives, the realm of money and payment networks is no exception. But what is at stake in the gradual yet significant shift from physical cash to digital forms of money?
The Master’s Tools
A society cannot be free unless its technologies support a free and democratic social life. As the black feminist Audre Lorde noted, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”