Your Computer Is on Fire

Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks , Kavita Philip

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MIT Press
18 May 2021

Computing: general

Techno-utopianism is dead- Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

Technology scholars declare an emergency- attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

This book sounds an alarm- we can no longer afford to be lulled into complacency by narratives of techno-utopianism, or even techno-neutrality. We should not be reassured by such soothing generalities as ""human error,"" ""virtual reality,"" or ""the cloud."" We need to realize that nothing is virtual- everything that ""happens online,"" ""virtually,"" or ""autonomously"" happens offline first, and often involves human beings whose labor is deliberately kept invisible. Everything is IRL. In Your Computer Is on Fire, technology scholars train a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.

By: Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters
Edited by: Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780262539739
ISBN 10: 026253973X
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 18 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

When Did the Fire Start? Part One | Nothing is Virtual 1 The Cloud is a Factory 2 Your AI is a Human 3 A Network is Not a Network 4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized 5 Capture is Pleasure Part Two | This is an Emergency 6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug 7 Gender is a Corporate Tool 8 Siri Disciplines 9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral 10 Broken is Word 11 You Can't Make Games About Much Part Three | Where Will the Fire Spread? 12 Coding is Not Empowerment 13 Source Code Isn't 14 Skills Will Not Set You Free 15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire 16 Typing is Dead How to Stop Worrying about Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise How Do We Live Now? In the Aftermath of Ourselves

Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Coming to Terms with the Nation- Ethnic Classification in Modern China. Benjamin Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Mar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology. Kavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and critical theory. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for Your Computer Is on Fire

Strategy & Business Best Business Books 2021, Tech & Innovation An all-star collection of readable and complex stories, all aimed at ensuring the naive view of neutral technology gets buried and, please, left in the past. -Public Books The collection of impactful tech issues interrogated over the span of decades in this book makes it recommended reading for anyone interested in the impact of tech policy in businesses and governments, as well as people deploying AI or interested in the way people shape technology. -VentureBeat Technology is so embedded in our lives that we can sometimes forget it is there at all. Your Computer is on Fire is a vital reminder not only of its presence, but that we urgently need to extinguish the problems associated with it. -New Scientist The book tech critics and organizers have been waiting for. -Los Angeles Review of Books The authors fearlessly dismantle the technology industry's most sacred assumptions, forcing a rethinking of everything we've come to accept as true about our digital lives and the multibillion-dollar digital transformations going on inside our companies. Titles such as 'Gender Is a Corporate Tool,' 'A Network Is Not a Network,' and 'Coding Is Not Empowerment' pull no punches. -Strategy & Business