Technology Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/technology/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Technology Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/technology/ 32 32 Tech, Stones, and Stories: How the Violence of Border Tech is a Historical Matter https://www.publicbooks.org/tech-stones-and-stories-how-the-violence-of-border-tech-is-a-historical-matter/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60832 Border technologies live within loops of failure → crisis → fix → failure → crisis → fix, eternally to be tested. It will work, promise! Just wait for one more iteration.

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]]> Borders Are War by Other Means https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-are-war-by-other-means-chaar-lopez/ Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:09:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60901 The border today is and is made through sociotechnical arrangements centering data in the regulation of racial difference.

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]]> With Big Tech, the Border Is Everywhere https://www.publicbooks.org/with-big-tech-the-border-is-everywhere/ Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=60540 Given that the border is already mystified as a technology, new forms of computerized border technologies doubly fetishize the configurations of people, materials, force, and law that compose bordering practices.

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]]> It’s Not Optimal https://www.publicbooks.org/its-not-optimal/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:00:59 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59966 Four books about a new age of AI tell stories of sluggish processes, ambiguous outcomes, emotionally charged issues, and generous margins for error.

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]]> Toward a Realpolitik for AI https://www.publicbooks.org/toward-a-realpolitik-for-ai/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59931 Today’s AI arms race demands a healthy dose of realism.

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]]> The Future of Tech: Black Boxes or Clear Communication? https://www.publicbooks.org/the-future-of-tech-black-boxes-or-clear-communication/ Tue, 27 May 2025 15:00:49 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59769 To optimize what’s happening in the world of digital technology, we’ve got to understand the unspoken rules of that world.

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]]> Triumph of the Undead: The Public Domain as Horror Hero https://www.publicbooks.org/triumph-of-the-undead-the-public-domain-as-horror-hero/ Thu, 01 May 2025 15:00:27 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59576 Both “Nosferatu” and “Night of the Living Dead” provide key examples of how vital the public domain is for horror.

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]]> Planetary Boundaries are Non-Negotiable: Kim Stanley Robinson and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller https://www.publicbooks.org/planetary-boundaries-are-non-negotiable-kim-stanley-robinson-and-elizabeth-carolyn-miller/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59569 Our partner podcast Novel Dialogue invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. This season’s signature question is: If you could spend a year anywhere, where, when, and how would you spend it? In Season 9, Novel Dialogue set […]

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]]> “We’re Losing a Sense That We Made Them”: Webb Keane on AI and Human Morality https://www.publicbooks.org/webb-keane-interview-ai-and-human-morality/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59392 “We can’t fully grasp what’s new about it unless we also understand what we’ve seen before.”

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]]> Novel Dialogue Season 9 Trailer: Writing Against the System with Aarthi Vadde https://www.publicbooks.org/novel-dialogue-season-9-trailer-writing-against-the-system-with-aarthi-vadde/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:11:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59332 In the trailer for Season 9 of Novel Dialogue, Aarthi Vadde looks at the web as the predominant platform of cultural life, and one that needs to be understood in light of literary history.

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