"Computational thinking assumes that perfect information about the past can and should be collected and synthesized to inform decisions about the future." —John Thomason, "Is It Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of the Internet?" The Intercept, November 24, 2018. A review of the book, New Dark Age: Technology and … Continue reading Computational Thinking
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Emotional Regimes
"In September 2017, a screenshot of a simple conversation went viral on the Russian-speaking segment of the internet. It showed the same phrase addressed to two conversational agents: the English-speaking Google Assistant, and the Russian-speaking Alisa, developed by the popular Russian search engine Yandex. The phrase was straightforward: ‘I feel sad.’ The responses to it, … Continue reading Emotional Regimes
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