Lizzie O'Shea
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
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Lizzie O Shea's book "Future Histories" explores the practical and revolutionary possibilities of our digital age by looking back at the past and present. She questions what the Paris Commune can teach us about the ethics of the Internet and finds inspiration in the works of Thomas Paine and Frantz Fanon. She also examines Elon Musk's futuristic visions but finds them rooted in Victorian-era utopianism. Instead, she focuses on the Romantic age of wonder, narrating the collaboration between Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, who designed the world's first computer. O Shea weaves a usable past to help us emancipate our digital tomorrows in a world of increased surveillance, biased algorithms, and fears of job automation.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
The key to understanding technology lies not in the future, but in the past. This is the contention of Lizzie O Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore the practical and sometimes revolutionary possibilities of our digital age. O Shea is searching for new ways to think about our networked world, asking what the Paris Commune can tell us about the ethics of the Internet and finding inspiration in the revolutionary works of Thomas Paine and Frantz Fanon. She examines Elon Musk's futuristic visions only to find them mired in a musty Victorian-era utopianism. Instead, O Shea returns us to the Romantic age of wonder, when art and science were as yet undivided, narrating the collaboration between Ada Lovelace, the brilliant daughter of Lord and Lady Byron, and polymath Charles Babbage, who together designed the world's first computer.
In our brave new world of increased surveillance, biased algorithms, and fears of job automation, O Shea weaves a usable past that we can employ in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrows.
Weight: 288g
Dimension: 137 x 198 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788734318
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