Clouds as a Form of Life

the cloud has changed how we create new technologies

• introduction

Academic Machines

explore the historical intersection between computers and academia

• layers of computing
• engineering community
• an accidental movement

Corporate Control

open technologies have been co-opted into private products

• anything-as-a-service
• striking a balance
• compounding concerns

Digital Red Lines

data centers perpetuate decades of environmental racism

• economic subsidation
• environmental subjugation
• extractive oppression

Technological Somnambulism

academia is sleepwalking into adopting information techologies

• academic services
• library clouds
• systems caretakers

Optimistic Futurism

we can find new ways to build technology as a community

• critical technology
• transformative justice

Cloud-First College

university of washington has fully embraced the cloud at its core

• findings
• discussion

Recommendations

universities can exert soft power on big tech to facilitate change

• stewardship
• systems education

Cloudbusting

explore computing's transition from academic to global scales and it’s struggle against big tech.

The U Dub

explore how a “cloud-first” approach can put an institution at odds with stewardship values.