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LOGIC MAGAZINE: FREER FUTURES
July 17, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
     About Us • Events and Readings • Podcast • Blog • Map and Directions • FAQ • Contact Us LOGIC MAGAZINE: FREER FUTURES Saturday, July 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m. PT / 4:00 p.m. ET, This is a virtual event which will be held on the Zoom platform. Click the link in the event description for info.
Freer Futures How do we democratize technology? How can we develop better models for developing, owning, and organizing the infrastructures of our lives? Please join Logic Magazine for an online panel devoted to exploring these questions. We’ll be joined by the following Logic contributors: + Sarah T. Hamid is the policing tech campaign lead at the Carceral Tech Resistance Network, co-founder of the Prison Tech Research Group, and sits on the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Oregon. + Aaron Benanav is a researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin and the author of Automation and the Future of Work. Moderated by Logic co-founder Ben Tarnoff. ———– This is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. LOGIC celebrates Issue 13 “Distribution” The internet was invented for the purpose of redistribution: to move computing power from one place to another. Today, the cloud both has and has not fulfilled this dream. On the one hand, users anywhere can borrow cycles from servers deep in the forests of Oregon or high on the mountains of Guizhou. On the other, those servers belong to just a handful of companies. Data analytics and machine learning have made it possible to optimize supply chains linking every part of the world. But they have not spread production or profits evenly. As blockchain evangelists aim to distribute trust, and distributed-cognition theorists describe a world of matter vibrating with consciousness, this issue will explore the distributive aspects of digital technologies. New futures are always arriving; they are never evenly distributed. LOGIC is a critical journal devoted to technology and society. Past issues have explored the effects of technology on culture. Each issues focusses on a specific theme. Past themes have included: civic life in relation to technology, explorations of the problems and possibilities big tech and big data create, democracy in the face of ever accelerating technological advances, gender and equality, sex in relation to technology, how bodies and technologies cross one another, and much more. visit: https://logicmag.io |
