- My advice after a year without tech: rewild yourself.
- How to change the course of human history.
- The great nutrient collapse.
- Infrastructural Ecology: The City’s Buried Systems.
- A cyberattack in Saudi Arabia had a deadly goal. Experts fear another try.
- The social ideology of the motorcar (1973).
- Economic Science Fictions.
- Sociologists examine hackatons and see exploitation. [via internetactu.net]
- It wasn’t just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas. [Via Uneven Earth]
No Tech Reader #18
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No Tech Reader #17
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No Tech Reader #16
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No Tech Reader #15
December 27, 2017 by Filed Under: No Tech Readers
From the new world, Yang Yongliang.
- $180bn investment in plastic factories feeds global packaging binge.
- Tsunami of data could consume one-fifth of global electricity by 2025.
- Our relationship with work is destroying our humanity.
- Cash may be king, but they don’t care.
- The hard math behind Bitcoin’s global warming problem.
- The long ecologist revolution.
- Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart.
- Facebook admits it poses mental health risk — but says using site more can help.
- The Influence of the number of toys in the environment on toddlers. [Via Ran Prieur]
No Tech Reader #14
November 25, 2017 by Filed Under: No Tech Readers
- The Switch to Outdoor LED Lighting Has Completely Backfired. [Gizmodo]
- Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet. [Monbiot]
- Automated checkouts ‘miserable’ for elderly shoppers. [BBC]
- Do Civilizations Collapse? [Aeon]
- ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia. [Guardian]
No Tech Reader #13
July 18, 2017 by Filed Under: No Tech Readers