Future Histories - What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology (O'Shea Lizzie)(Paperback / softback)

A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Australia When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future--which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us determine our digital future. What, she asks, can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources--like the Internet--in common? How can Frantz Fanon's theories of anti colonial self-determination
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