Techno-utopianism is dead: Now is the time to pay attention to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems. This event gathered the four editors of the new MIT Press book Your Computer is On Fire (2021) for a conversation about technology, history, and politics. Join Thomas Mullaney (Stanford), Kavita Philip (University of British Columbia), Ben Peters (University of Tulsa), and Mar Hicks (Illinois Institute of Technology) for a panel discussion that links computing’s past with its present in an attempt to solve some of the most pressing problems facing high tech democracies today.
Former Professor of Technology & Society
Professor Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is a sociologist who studies innovation, the digital transformation of industries, and how new technologies impact work.
President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, University of British Columbia
Associate Professor of History, Illinois Institute of Technology
Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies, University of Tulsa
Professor of History, Stanford University