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Technology
Interviews with technologists and scholars of technology about their new books.
November 20, 2024
Thinking Machines: Will Robots Have Rights?
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in this episode of our series on artificial intelligence, we discuss Joanna Bryson’s essay “Robots Should be Slaves.” We…
November 18, 2024
Balkan Cyberia
Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernisation, and the Information Age Behind the Iron Curtain (MIT Press, 2023) examines the history of…
November 16, 2024
From Click to Boom
How do states build vital institutions for market development? Too often, governments confront technical or political barriers to providing the rule o…
November 11, 2024
In Pursuit of Unicorns
Modern biotechnology--genetic engineering and cell manipulation--originated with the 1973 demonstration that genes from different organisms could be r…
November 8, 2024
At the Edge of AI
How are human computation systems developed in the field of citizen science to achieve what neither humans nor computers can do alone? In At the Edg…
November 5, 2024
Four Points of the Compass
North, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting w…
November 4, 2024
On "Automation"
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Salem Elzway, postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at University of Southern …
November 2, 2024
Thinking Machines: The First AI Takeover Story
It’s the UConn Popcast, and in the second of our series on Thinking Machines we consider Karel Čapek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (1920). Čapek’s pla…
October 31, 2024
Digital Intimacies
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, saf…
October 31, 2024
When We Prioritize Data and Metrics, What Happens to Human Connections?
Today’s book is: The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (Princeton University Press, 2024), by Dr. Allison Pugh, which exp…
October 30, 2024
Tech Agnostic
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every …
October 26, 2024
Averting the Digital Dark Age
In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-last…
October 23, 2024
Thinking Machines: The Turing Test at 75
It’s the UConn Popcast, and this is the first episode in our new series about artificial intelligence and popular culture. In this first episode, we r…
October 23, 2024
Edward Duffield
Edward Duffield (1730–1803) was a colonial Philadelphia clockmaker, whose elegant brass, mahogany, and walnut timekeepers stand proudly in major Ameri…
October 21, 2024
Emotional Rescue
What can sound technologies tell us about our relationship to media as a whole? This is one of the central questions in the research of Phantom Power‘…
October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b…
October 21, 2024
Electrifying Indonesia
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) tells the story of the entanglement of politic…
October 15, 2024
The Tech Coup
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power …
October 8, 2024
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day
A History of Fireworks from Their Origins to the Present Day (Reaktion, 2024) by John Withington illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from…
October 7, 2024
Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur “Genius Prize” winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history o…