I also do a podcast debating tech ethics with UMass Boston philosopher Nir Eisikovits.
In this week’s Prosthetic Gods Nir and I discuss the show Black Mirror, the now archetypal tech dystopian cultural phenomenon. In almost every episode, technology is the villain. What rarely appears is a legislature, a regulator, or anyone organizing with anybody else. Technology simply arrives, and the only available moral is individual failure. Dystopian narratives are popular, but what work do they do? Do they spur us to action or disempower us? What would a tech realist version look like?
https://prostheticgods.podbean.com/e/black-mirror/
