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I used to think of Blake’s sentence as a justification of youthful excess. By now I know that it describes the peculiar condemnation of our species. When the road of excess has reached the palace of wisdom it is a healed wound, a long scar.

The World-Ending Fire

Wendell Berry

Lovelace assures readers that while its powers (to automate and displace labor) are great, the Engine will remain under “our” control: “It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.” Here we see a perfect encapsulation of the tension between the will to automate and control others’ and the fear that such automation could potentially expand to control “us” as well as “them.”

Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control

logicmag.io

When you’re amassing data to categorize people and thinking about compatibility and affinity through those lines—there’s this reproductive-focused eugenicist turn.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

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