Ancestors

Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-01-31 at 01:15

Ursula Franklin—technology thinker, physicist, metallurgist, Quaker, and committed pacifist—is one of the people whose work I return to the most when things are bad.

I tried to write about her great short checklist for making decisions about technology and I ended up writing a whole post about just the first item, which the real foundational one.

https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/

"The viability of technology, like democracy, depends in the end on the practice of justice…"

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Toot

Written by funnymonkey on 2025-01-31 at 01:56

@kissane That's a beautiful piece.

Thank you.

I want to listen to the lectures now.

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Descendants

Written by Amin Girasol on 2025-02-01 at 00:16

@funnymonkey @kissane available right here on archive.org, fetched from the CBC website some years ago:

https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology

Add them to your podcast app with

https://archive.org/download/the-real-world-of-technology/podcast.xml

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845

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Written by Erin Kissane on 2025-02-01 at 00:30

@fluidlogic @funnymonkey (They're also linked from the post itself, in a couple of places.)

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