Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
A very thought-provoking presentation from Maggie on how software development might be democratised.
The Long Now Foundation: “Nadia Eghbal Talk”
This is a great talk by Nadia Eghbal on software, open source, maintenance, and of course, long-term thinking.
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Talk: The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton:
An exploration of the problems and possible futures of flooding the web with generative AI content.
Open source beyond the market - Signal v. Noise
The transcript of David Heinemeier Hansson keynote from last year’s RailsConf is well worth reading. It’s ostensibily about open source software but it delves into much larger questions.
What History’s Female Internet Pioneers can Teach us about Tomorrow on Vimeo
The terrific talk from Beyond Tellerrand by Claire L. Evans, author of Broad Band.
As we face issues of privacy, identity, and society in a networked world, we have much to learn from these women, who anticipated the Internet’s greatest problems, faced them, and discovered solutions we can still use today.
Rockets of India – Medium
The fascinating history of India’s space program is the jumping-off point for a comparison of differing cultural attitudes to space exploration in Anab’s transcript of her Webstock talk, published on Ev’s blog.
From astronauts to afronauts, from cosmonauts to vyomanauts, how can deep space exploration inspire us to create more democratic future visions?
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Unsolved Problems by Beth Dean
A presentation at An Event Apart Seattle 2019.