The piece serves as a poignant commentary on the commodification of well-being, raising questions about the efficacy of medication (Placebo Effect), and the contemporary pharmaceutical industry.
Rebellion against the numbing effects of technology is possible, but it requires a recognition of the self and a connection with the world outside of the numbing medium.
The internet reflects our technological evolution back at us not only by incorporating past forms but also by illuminating the way each invention has affected our behavior and conceptualization of the world.
Working across film, literature, philosophy, and history, the authors take creative and critical approaches to the study of technology, profoundly concerned with its reciprocal influence on and by the human.
In a digital age where concepts of productivity, technology, and identity are irrevocably tied together, Zima’s story offers a solution that ties together spirituality and technology.
Within these filmic depictions, East Asians remain eternal outsiders and representative of an automated world that threatens humanity, culminating in the expression of the Western fear of a technological future that looks Asian.
Unlike factory or shipyard work, for which there was a masculine precedent prior to the Rosie the Riveter-era of feminism, there was no set computing culture prior to the beginning of the Cold War because the industry did not exist. What changed?