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 great essay.
Fear and dehumanization of communities who are othered pave the way for abusive technological advancement. These groups are placed in protection black holes and become testing grounds for this tech. They face the biggest threats from states and power regardless of who is in office: from migrants at borders and incarcerated people in prisons, to apartheid systems. Once these approaches have been tested on those living in the margins, it is then expanded to other segments of the population."
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@jdp23 I had not seen this, thank you! My media diet this week has been—a mess.
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