Week 6 Lecture - Technosolutionism

Lisa Yan, October 1st, 2024

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Benjamin. Race After Technology: Introduction. 2019.
• Optional [Ed post] Wu. Optimize What?. 2019.
• Optional [Ed post] Metcalf, Moss, and boyd. Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics. 2019.
• Optional [Ed post] Turner. Don’t Be Evil: Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers. 2017.
• Optional [Ed post] Ian Tucker. Evgeny Morozov: We are abandoning all the checks and balances. The Guardian. 2013.

CS H195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Benjamin. Race After Technology: Conclusion. 2019.
• Required [Ed post] Wu. The Tyranny of Convenience. The New York Times. 2018.
• Optional [Ed post] Lanier. The Solution is to Double Down on Being Human. The Guardian. 2017.