An Answer to Big Tech? Tech at a Human Scale

What if we could make tech at a smaller, more personal scale? Can small tech make the internet good again? The Moral Repair team digs into big questions about colonialism, design, and new ways to fund tech with Aral Balkan from the Small Tech Foundation.

Episode 8 of the Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech podcast, hosted by Moral Repair, titled "An Answer to Big Tech? Tech at a Human Scale" was published on January 10, 2024 and runs 40 minutes.

January 10, 2024 ·40m · Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech

Summary

Nov 2023, Prime ads expected to “reach 115M viewers per month.” Aral Balkan (Small Tech Foundation): “We didn’t lose control. It was stolen.” Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (2020) is now a film. Marjorie Kelly: Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises. Marjorie with Laura Flanders (Dec 2023). Toni Morrison’s “A Humanist View”, The Source of Self-Regard (Knopf, 2019). Transcript and audio. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit, 2021. The wealth of one billionaire compared to average US household income ($65K). Techcrunch (June 2023): US intel confirms it purchases US citizens’ personal data. Prof. Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School) defines surveillance capitalism. Wangari Maathai describes the Green Belt Movement in her 2004 Nobel Lecture. How emotions shape our identities, cultures, and societies: “The Cultural Politics of Emotion” (Sara Ahmed). “The Body Keeps The Score” (Bessel van der Kolk) educates on the impact of emotional pain and trauma on our physical bodies. “Whitey On The Moon”: Gil Scott-Heron on The Revolution Begins.

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