22- Are We Sleepwalking Into New Technological Futures?
PRIO's Peace in a Pod · Arnaud Siad
January 21, 202131m 8s
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Show Notes
In his essay "Technologies as Forms of Life", Langdon Winner writes about "technological sonambulism", the idea that people's ability to consider technology's effects is much slower than the pace of technological development and implementation. Researcher Bruno Oliveira Martins and Research Assistant Neven Ahmad say the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating that problem — but there's still time to fix it.
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