Victor Loux — bookmarks tagged “technology”

The long read: Millions are robbed of the power of speech by illness, injury or lifelong conditions. Can the creation of bespoke digital voices transform their ability to communicate?

Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse Phone? - The New York Times

nytimes.com/2018/01/12/technology/grayscale-phone.html

A small group of people have turned their phone screens to shades of gray to make them less stimulating. That’s the opposite of what tech companies want.

There's No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence - Machine Intelligence Research Institute

intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/

Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech

idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm

Nobody Goes to Art School to Make Money, so F*** Off

medium.com/@omershapira/nobody-goes-to-art-school-to-make-money-so-fuck-off-48fee12e24c2

Not even wrong: ways to dismiss technology — Benedict Evans

ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/5/24/not-even-wrong-ways-to-dismiss-technology

Notes from an Emergency

idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm

We Have Never Been Modern - Bruno Latour - Google Books

books.google.co.uk/books/about/We_Have_Never_Been_Modern.html

John Deere just told the copyright office that only corporations can own property, humans can only license it / Boing Boing

boingboing.net/2017/04/22/drm-eschatology.html

Pixel Envy

pxlnv.com/

A sassy weblog written by Nick Heer, updated daily to cover the technological zeitgeist.

Sideways Dictionary

sidewaysdictionary.com/

Sideways dictionary — it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions. Use it as a tool for finding and sharing helpful analogies to explain technological ideas. Because if everyone understands technology better, we can make technology work better for everyone.