Progress, Postmodernism and the Tech Backlash

Opinion | There Is No Tech Backlash (Published 2019)

Worse, we think there is one.

Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle.

Rebooting the Tech Worker Movement - Dissent Magazine

Workplace organizing in the tech sector has undergone a steep decline. What went wrong?

Tech's right turn : the rise of reactionary politics in Silicon Valley and online

This dissertation shows how a group of conservative activists helped shape Silicon Valley and its digital technologies in the 1980s and 1990s. Operating primarily within a loose network of think ta...

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…

Silicon Valley, disruption, and the end of uncertainty

This paper reflects on the relationship between high-tech disruption narratives and uncertainty. My main argument is that an economic sociology of the future is incomplete without addressing the ‘d...

How the Tech World Turned Evil

Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.

Technological Metamodernism (Sep 2024)

Technological Metamodernism A four-week course with Stephen Reid and special guests Telegram group: https://t.me/+4CC9lfZMBN04ZTdk Substack post announcing the open-sourcing of the notes: https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/technological-metamodernism-course This work is licensed under Cre...

It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

As technology accelerates, we need to stop accepting the bad consequences along with the good ones.

tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster

responding with slowness in relations

tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster

responding with slowness in relations

Tech Policy Press - Technology and Democracy

Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

Lambda Land | Book Review: Technopoly

In Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman argues that our infatuation with technology has insidiously eroded our culture. We gain much through technology, but it comes at a price; all too often we are blind to that price. This book seeks to call attention to the costs of a technology-focused society. I felt this poignantly because I, as a technology worker, know what that infatuation feels like.

The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.