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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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Written by Ed Wiebe on 2025-01-31 at 18:47

@kissane These lectures are great.

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 2025-01-31 at 20:35

@edwiebe Right?

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