{"product_id":"your-computer-is-on-fire-isbn-9780262539739","title":"Your Computer Is on Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eTechnology scholars declare an emergency: attention must be paid to the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book sounds an alarm: we can no longer afford to be lulled into complacency by narratives of techno-utopianism, or even techno-neutrality. We should not be reassured by such soothing generalities as \"human error,\" \"virtual reality,\" or \"the cloud.\" We need to realize that nothing is virtual: everything that \"happens online,\" \"virtually,\" or \"autonomously\" happens offline first, and often involves human beings whose labor is deliberately kept invisible. Everything is IRL. In \u003ci\u003eYour Computer Is on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, technology scholars train a spotlight on the inequality, marginalization, and biases woven into our technological systems.When Did the Fire Start?\u003cbr\u003ePart One | Nothing is Virtual\u003cbr\u003e1 The Cloud is a Factory\u003cbr\u003e2 Your AI is a Human\u003cbr\u003e3 A Network is Not a Network\u003cbr\u003e4 The Internet Will Be Decolonized\u003cbr\u003e5 Capture is Pleasure\u003cbr\u003ePart Two | This is an Emergency\u003cbr\u003e6 Sexism is a Feature, Not a Bug\u003cbr\u003e7 Gender is a Corporate Tool\u003cbr\u003e8 Siri Disciplines\u003cbr\u003e9 Your Robot Isn't Neutral\u003cbr\u003e10 Broken is Word\u003cbr\u003e11 You Can't Make Games About Much\u003cbr\u003ePart Three | Where Will the Fire Spread?\u003cbr\u003e12 Coding is Not Empowerment\u003cbr\u003e13 Source Code Isn't\u003cbr\u003e14 Skills Will Not Set You Free\u003cbr\u003e15 Platforms are Infrastructures on Fire\u003cbr\u003e16 Typing is Dead\u003cbr\u003eHow to Stop Worrying about Clean Signals and Start Loving the Noise\u003cbr\u003eHow Do We Live Now? In the Aftermath of Ourselves\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrategy \u0026amp; Business\u003c\/i\u003e Best Business Books 2021, Tech \u0026amp; Innovation\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An all-star collection of readable and complex stories, all aimed at ensuring the naive view of neutral technology gets buried and, please, left in the past.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The collection of impactful tech issues interrogated over the span of decades in this book makes it recommended reading for anyone interested in the impact of tech policy in businesses and governments, as well as people deploying AI or interested in the way people shape technology.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVentureBeat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Technology is so embedded in our lives that we can sometimes forget it is there at all. \u003ci\u003eYour Computer is on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital reminder not only of its presence, but that we urgently need to extinguish the problems associated with it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book tech critics and organizers have been waiting for.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The authors fearlessly dismantle the technology industry’s most sacred assumptions, forcing a rethinking of everything we’ve come to accept as true about our digital lives and the multibillion-dollar digital transformations going on inside our companies. Titles such as 'Gender Is a Corporate Tool,' 'A Network Is Not a Network,' and 'Coding Is Not Empowerment' pull no punches.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eStrategy \u0026amp; Business\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A compelling case for the value of the humanities – and of history, in particular – in offering us a critical perspective to challenge the fantasies of genius innovators and streamlined progress.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University and the author of \u003ci\u003eComing to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Peters is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tulsa and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMar Hicks is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKavita Philip studies colonialism, neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and critical theory. 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