Thomas reviewed Your Computer Is on Fire by Benjamin Peters
Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and …
Review of 'Your Computer Is on Fire' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Some nice histories and explanations of why specific contemporary technologies include legacy biases. Much handwringing, few solutions.
The book makes a good effort to dispel the notion of technology platforms and infrastructure as detached from human labour.
The afterword(s) make grand statements about our collective impending doom and how bad things could get, but shrug off suggesting a remedy to ‘the next 50 years’.