Episodes

In Episode 6 we continue in our series of deep dives into technical and social issues with automation by taking a first principles look at what technology does, along with discussing why that is important for AI and automation systems. To get this grounding we’ll look at the book What Things Do by Peter-Paul Verbeek.

Get the book and follow along:

• What Things Do by Peter-Paul Verbeek (affiliate link)

In Episode 5 Algorithms Are More Than Just Code we continue in our series of deep dives into technical and social issues with automation by looking at how algorithms are more than just code.

• Lowrie, Ian. 2018. “Algorithms and Automation: An Introduction.” Cultural Anthropology 33 (3): 349–59.
• Thomas, Suzanne L, Dawn Nafus, and Jamie Sherman. 2018. “Algorithms as Fetish: Faith and Possibility in Algorithmic Work.” Big Data & Society 5 (1): 2053951717751552.
• Franz Kafka. The metamorphosis. Modern Library Classics, 2013. (affiliate link)
• Haruki Murakami. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel. Vintage, 2010. (affiliate link)
• Gabriel García Márquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Modern Classics, 2006. (affiliate link)
• Neil Gaiman. The Ocean at the End of the Lane. William Morrow Paperbacks, Reprint edition, 2021. (affiliate link)

In Episode 4 we have a TechnoSpotlight mini-episode where we discuss:

• A security video by Dan Kaminsky: DEF CON 22 - Dan Kaminsky - Secure Random by Default
• A new book on AI by Kate Crawford: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (affiliate link)
• A new book on data by Jer Thorp: Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future (affiliate link)

In Episode 3 we continue in our series of deep dives into technical and social issues with automation by discussing automation today, including AI-enabled Robotic Process Automation, and we’re going to do that by diving into a series of three articles by technology consultant and professor Jeffrey Funk.

In Episode 2 of the TechnoSlipstream Podcast we continue in our series of deep dives into technical and social issues with automation by discussing remote work and diving into the book Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation by David Noble (affiliate link).

A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market. – Verso Books

In the first episode of the TechnoSlipstream Podcast we dig into Aaron Benanav’s new book Automation and the Future of Work (affiliate link).