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Your Computer Is on Fire

Your Computer Is on Fire

Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, Kavita Philip · 2021 · 376 pages

MathematicsComputersSocial aspectsInformation technology

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"This book sounds an alarm: after decades of being lulled into complacency by narratives of technological utopianism and neutrality, people are waking up to the large-scale consequences of Silicon Valley-led technophilia. This book trains a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases in our technological systems, showing how they are not just minor bugs to be patched, but part and parcel of ideas that assume technology can fix--and control--society"--

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