I was listening to "Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centuars" wondering if @pluralistic was familiar with Ursula Franklin, who spoke to this issue 30 years ago.

Of course he is:
https://boingboing.net/2016/05/24/technologys-culture-of-com.html

She's a Candian national treasure.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-world-of-technology/oclc/781487284&referer=brief_results

Original Massey Lecture audio:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1989-cbc-massey-lectures-the-real-world-of-technology-1.2946845

#UrsulaFranklin #UrsulaKFranklin #MasseyLectures #RealWorldOfTechnology #ReverseCentuars #Chickenification #CoryDoctorow

Correcting PastMe / helping FutureMe:

#UrsulaMFranklin #UrsulaFranklin

(Oh how I love when I get the hashtag wrong despite spelling out the name accurately in the damned text itself.)

#UrsulaFranklin giving this Massey Lecture is so fucking good, I am now on hour three and she just explained how the system of technology we are imbedded in requires a constant state enemy ala 1984 and then went on to quote a memo dated September 11th. The lecture was given in 1989:
https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology/part-1.mp3