INFO 6940 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Permeation, Algorism, Lifesaving
12 Aug 2016
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Most people belong to some sort of residual categories. Most residual categories do not carry strong intentions. Most operates in tacit, habitual, routinized grounding of power and inequality. The distinction between inside and outside is the foundation of the political system: it describes who deserves rights given to the inside of the group. Infrastructure is material and social structures foundational to human action and meaning in the world. Infrastructure is shared and collective (google search algorism) Infrastructure is negotiated on an ongoing basis, also subject to lock in (qwerty keyboard) Infrastructure is constraining and enabling, set the possibilities of human action. Checklist has been the most life-saving technology in hospital because it reduces the medical errors. Formal models can help separate factual form ethical disputes. Reading: why we need better ethics for emerging technologies. Technological paradigms are conceptual dimensions which shapes the possibilities of the future.
