"When you buy a toaster, you don't think about everything that has to happen before it appears in the store. You aren't aware of the iron being carved out of the mountain or the oil being drawn up from the earth."

I do - at least since I've read "Atlas of AI" [2021] by Kate Crawford [one of my #rebcommendations !] And that's the reason why I buy used stuff, especially [!] electronics, on kleinanzeigen.de - anyways, this text is a good one.

https://jamesclear.com/dont-start-from-scratch

#bookstagram #KateCrawford

https://youtu.be/eYUYdpG4UT8?si=droGRGa6goFAln4e

#NeildeGrasseTyson #LatanyaSweeney of #HarvardUniversity, #KateCrawford of #USC, #ChrisCallison-Burch of the #UniversityofPennsylvania, #CynthiaRush of #ColumbiaUniversity, #NateSoares of the #MachineIntelligenceResearchInstitute, and #EricSchmidt, the former CEO and Chairman of #Google. #AI #Science

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2023)

Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries.

https://calculatingempires.net/?pos=9899.97%2C8725.00%2C12.7160

#KateCrawford #VladanJoler #Technology

Mapping Empires by Kate Crawford, Long Now Talks.

Crawford gives a tour through her detailed artwork Calculating Empires. Through examples ranging from Liebig’s critique of agriculture “robbing” soil nutrients, to Faraday’s latex insulation that devastated rubber forests, Crawford shows how technologies have long created “metabolic rifts”: systems that extract more than they regenerate.

https://longnow.org/talks/02025-crawford/

#AI #lecture #KateCrawford #LongNow