{"id":4030,"date":"2018-09-06T17:38:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2018-09-06T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:38:32","slug":"no-tech-reader-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2018\/09\/no-tech-reader-20.html","title":{"rendered":"No Tech Reader #20"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/online_articles\/uber-flying-car-silicon-valley-labor-technology-future-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taking back the wheel<\/a><\/strong>. In the future heralded by Silicon Valley, cars will fly and labor will be disposable. But none of this is inevitable. It\u2019s a political choice\u2014that we can still reject.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theecologist.org\/2018\/aug\/30\/engineering-climate-could-cost-us-earth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Engineering the climate could cost us the Earth<\/strong><\/a>. A political technology, geoengineering belongs to the institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate action and reducing the urgency for structural change.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2018\/7\/11\/17555644\/nuclear-power-energy-climate-decarbonization-renewables\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists assessed the options for growing nuclear power. They are grim<\/a><\/strong>. For better or worse, renewable energy is the name of the game for the next few decades.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boundary2.org\/2018\/08\/tante\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial Saviors<\/a><\/strong>. An increasingly powerful and influential social group is hard-coding its biases into the software running our societies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/unevenearth.org\/2018\/09\/pulling-the-magical-lever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pulling the magical lever<\/strong><\/a>. Techno-utopian visions can\u2019t be used as inspiration for the creation of anything but an upper-class gated community sucking out resources and labour from peripheries and keeping the unfortunate poor out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-recovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What Happened in the Dark: Puerto Rico&#8217;s Year of Fighting for Power<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cCould @elonmusk go in and rebuild Puerto Rico\u2019s electricity system with independent solar &amp; battery systems?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All links via\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unevenearth.org\/2018\/09\/august-readings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uneven Earth&#8217;s August 2018 newsletter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking back the wheel. In the future heralded by Silicon Valley, cars will fly and labor will be disposable. But none of this is inevitable. It\u2019s a political choice\u2014that we can still reject. Engineering the climate could cost us the Earth. A political technology, geoengineering belongs to the institutional apparatus that is preventing effective climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[313],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}