Much of the ‘critical’ academic discourse on ethics and accessibility in relation to new technology does not eat its own dog food. It doesn’t bother to take the time to carefully define, categorise and evaluate particular technologies, and it mostly fails to propose credible actions or mitigations.
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Please mind the gap between higher education and the technology ecosystem
Higher ed has considerable power to positively influence the tech ecosystem, not by moaning about capitalism, or waiting to see what happens. We have to do it by quickly identifying and aggressively advancing innovative and progressive use cases. So when do we start?
What do techno-optimists and conspiracy theorists have in common? Quite a lot, it turns out.
Fervent, overly determined techno-optimism has much in common with the ideation of conspiracy theories relating to advanced technologies. In fact, advocates of techno-optimist futures, and the proponents of conspiracy theories such as the supposed causal relationship between 5G and COVID-19, share common cognitive, dispositional and contextual characteristics.
Matthew Moran 