Links of the Week: April 5, 2024: Tech Tok
The ban-or-not TikTok controversy just shows how scattershot our approach to technology is.
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Tech
A collection of 58 posts
The Story of Technological Progress is Not a Given: A Review of Power and Progress
The cultural sector has to change its ideas about progress and technology.
Links of the Week: March 1, 2024: Futures and Presents, Perfect and Imperfect
Speculative fiction only works if we understand our past and present.
Will the Challenge of AI Inspire Museums and Workers to Innovate Together? An Interview with Deb Howes
How do museums navigate the AI landscape between the rock of institutional/staff obsolescence and the hard place of private profiteering?
Links of the Week: January 19, 2024: Museum Workers Come in from the Cold?
What is to be done if the "fall" of museum work is just a part of a greater malaise?
Links of the Week: January 12, 2024: Blood in the System
Discussions about technology are about so much more than machines.
Museum Luddites, Revisited: A Review of Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant
A new book connect the Luddite uprising of the 1810s to current tech-directed work.
Links of the Week: December 15, 2023: Collapsagideon Time
Is there room for different approaches to—or even understandings of—societal collapse?
Can Museums Prioritize Civics, Wellbeing, and Technology All at Once?
A brief virtual conference made a game attempt to link civics, in a partisan age, staff wellbeing, and technology.
The Analytics and Intuition Dilemma for Museum Workers
Data and analytics are important for museums, but intuition and genius need to be democratized, too.