J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mickey Rooney, The Algorithm, Mark Zuckerberg
16 Nov 2017
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Guest speaker - sara wachter-boettcher toxic tech. Author of technically wrong: sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of. What does it mean that technology has normalized things in our lives. October - update to google map users when you calculate directions to locations, it showed the number of calories it thought that you might burn if you walked instead of taking transit. Mundane harmfull things that tech does to us every day. Tech industry is hell bent on more clicking and interest. Pink cupcakes are affiliated with white upper class women. Calvin - toddler who gains weight weekly setting a weight goal. A scale is only programmed to think that losing weight is good. Siri posing a joke in response to a serious question person. Tech companies aren"t designing for that to a gun store. Partnered with suicide prevention to fix it across the board - one.
