8.23: Things Get Weird When You Add New Technology

Reviewing what we learned in 2020—and ranking what we read!

So many books!

Also: MARIMBAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Show Notes

The books we covered this season:

1. Phaedrus, Plato: 8.02, 8.03
2. The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard: 8.04, 8.05
3. The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil: 8.06, 8.07
4. Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton: 8.08, 8.09
5. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, Elizabeth Eisenstein: 8.10, 8.11
6. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, Simone Browne: 8.12, 8.13
7. The Real World of Technology, Ursula Franklin: 8.14, 8.15
8. Evolution as a Religion, Mary Midgley: 8.16, 8.17
9. Contact, Carl Sagan: 8.18, 8.19
10. Twitter and Tear Gas, Zeynep Tüfekçi: 8.20, 8.21
11. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan: 8.22

Stephen’s list

1. Twitter and Tear Gas
2. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
3. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
4. The Postmodern Condition
5. Contact
6. Jurassic Park
7. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
8. The Real World of Technology
9. Phaedrus
10. The Age of Spiritual Machines
11. Evolution as a Religion

Chris’s list

1. Twitter and Tear Gas
2. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
3. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
4. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
5. Jurassic Park
6. Phaedrus
7. Contact
8. The Real World of Technology
9. The Postmodern Condition
10. The Age of Spiritual Machines
11. Evolution as a Religion

Credits Music

• “Foxglove”, by Ryan Dugré. Used by permission, please don’t use without permission.
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, meaning you can do whatever you want with this music… as long as you share it for others to likewise do what they want.

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• Daniel Ellcey
• Douglas Campos
• Jake Grant
• Marnix Klooster
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