PHI 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vending Machine, Kimono, 100 Feet
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Two readings: intersection between the development of technologies and values: the future is gender distributed, surprisingly persistent gender gap in computer technology short circuits our future. Life with and without ducks: the future is gender distributed. I came across this article a few days ago, detailing several self-cleaning fabric technologies, some chemical, some using nanotech. And it made me think of one of the particular vectors of uneven distribution. Bear with me for a minute, this is going to seem like a tangent, but it"s not. In a former life, i lived in japan for several years, in yokosuka, which is just south of yokohama, about two hours by train east of tokyo. Now, this was in the early naughts, so i"m willing to entertain the notion that it"s all completely changed by now and what i"m about to say no longer applies.
