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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@kissane "There’s no way to reduce fear through means that make the burden on others greater" is indeed an uncompromising position. As an engineer who has been trained to think in terms of tradeoffs, it's one I'm not yet convinced of. Do you have any pointers within her great volume of work that can get me convinced faster?
No worries if not. This is interesting stuff, I will likely poke my way through it regardless.
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@twifkak I’d start with The Real World of Technology. I included two points in the post about this as well, bc there are always trade-offs—she’s talking about working out which things we refuse to trade.
The bit toward the end about the negotiable and the non/negotiable is crucial here, and somewhere in the post I talked about using an accurate sense of the needs of the most vulnerable to draw boundaries for trade-offs. (Which is to say, shifting terror to someone else isn’t a fix.)
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