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Your Computer Is on Fire

Name: Your Computer Is on Fire
ISBN: 9780262539739

Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks

MIT Press · 2021-03-09

Edition details: Paperback – March 9, 2021

Your Computer Is on Fire:

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Good for readers who enjoy Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology
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Good for fans of Technology

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Themes: Business, Philosophy, Psychology.
Reading lane: Industries and Social Aspects.
Publisher: MIT Press.

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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.