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How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them. As we reach the 60th anniversa......more
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Argues that engineers influenced by French Enlightenment science built much of the machinery of America’s military state......more
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Incomputable Earth: Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis challenges the dominant narrative that positions technolo......more
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In a world seemingly run by the whims and power plays of Musks and Zucks, Insufferable Tools cuts to the core of modern ......more
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