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The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World
by Bob Hughes
Sept. 3, 2017 - Sept. 4, 2017 (read/dissertation/silicon-valley-etc/capitalism-etc)

Hughes, B. (2016). The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World. New Internationalist.


New Internationalist, 2016. 366 pages. Paperback. 9781780263298

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p.335
metanorm »
a norm that requires people to punish transgresso…
p.346
lintel »
(noun) a horizontal architectural member spanning…
p.282
structural adjustment programs »
a term for the loans provided by the IMF and the …
p.271
cybernetics »
(noun plural but singular in construction) the sc…
p.244
baleful »
(adjective) deadly or pernicious in influence / (…
p.346
unwinnable until, suddenly, they were won
There is an objection which points out that absol…
p.340
it has no known safe level
Instead of confronting the problem of excess weal…
p.332
coalminers and ballet dancers
Given the extreme discomfort and danger of coalmi…
p.304
they are changing the world
In 2013, the _New Yorker_'s George Packer found t…
p.294
the sheer scale of the redundancy
The attempt to shut down the economy in October 1…

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A socialist computer: Chile, 1970-1973

on Stafford Beer's work in cybernetics for the Chilean gov under Allende (Cybersyn, basically centrally planning an economy)

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A socialist computer: Chile, 1970-1973

on Stafford Beer's work in cybernetics for the Chilean gov under Allende (Cybersyn, basically centrally planning an economy)

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