Technologists don’t always ask the right questions while developing and their creations are often assumed to be neutral: just as the knife is merely a tool with promiscuous versatility for cutting both cake and flesh.
Technologies are more than tools and day-by-day they become integrated into our lives to create effectively new worlds.
explore the historical intersection between computers and academia
open technologies have been co-opted into private products
data centers perpetuate decades of environmental racism
academia is sleepwalking into adopting information techologies
we can find new ways to build technology as a community
university of washington has fully embraced the cloud at its core
universities can exert soft power on big tech to facilitate change
explore computing's transition from academic to global scales and it’s struggle against big tech.
explore how a “cloud-first” approach can put an institution at odds with stewardship values.
