1. goodreads.com

    Future Histories makes a comprehensive case to democratically socialize the internet as a common good. It details ways to better protect users and preserve the history of technology, like it's a public infrastructure project and people are its citizens with rights (such as to privacy).
    3.9/5
    (270)
    Author:Lizzie O'sheaFormat:Kindle Edition
  2. eandt.theiet.org

    Future Histories is not the first book I would recommend for those who are entirely unfamiliar with the societal challenges presented by digital technologies, but it is a thought-provoking text for readers looking to approach the subject from a well-informed, more academic perspective. ... Book review: 'The Life, Science and Times of Lev ...
  3. atboundarysedge.com

    Jan 25, 2025Out of the spread of fascism came two significant future histories. 1930's Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon projects the future of humanity through millions of years, recalling elements of Wells' The Time Machine while thoroughly being its own distinct work. 1933's The Shape of Things to Come by H.G. Wells is perhaps the most famous ...
  4. lizzieoshea.com

    E&T Review Future Histories. February 28, 2019; Publisher: ; Format: Book Review. My book reviewed by E&T: ... Future Histories is not the first book I would recommend for those who are entirely unfamiliar with the societal challenges presented by digital technologies, but it is a thought-provoking text for readers looking to approach the ...
  5. A highly engaging tour through progressive history in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrow Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Australia When we talk about technology we always talk about tomorrow and the future—which makes it hard to figure out how to even get there. In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues ...
    4.5/5
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  6. app.thestorygraph.com

    Reviews Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'Shea ... does a remarkable job of both describing potential issues with the current state of the industry and of imagining a future that is equally effective while also being more sustainable and equitable. nnnickiwi's ...
  7. A History of the Future, by Peter J. Bowler, is a wide-ranging survey of how twentieth-century writers foresaw and imagined the future, that is, our present.As the subtitle of the book tells us, Bowler explores the writings of prophets of progress like H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley and Isaac Asimov. The book's ten chapters explore the answers scientists and writers offered to questions like ...
  8. museemagazine.com

    Based in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith," curated by Tanya Zinbardo, is a beautiful collaboration of socially aware archival work and amicable collaboration. The work of Gates and Smith is brought into the present from 2018 and reimagines Black history and culture.
  9. penguinrandomhouse.com

    In Future Histories, public interest lawyer and digital specialist Lizzie O'Shea argues that we need to stop looking forward and start looking backwards. Weaving together histories of computing and progressive social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O'Shea constructs a "usable past" that can help us ...
  10. commonplace.doubleloop.net

    There's a lot to chew on in Future Histories.Thematically it is right up my street, in that it is linking leftist ideas from history to modern issues around digital technology and technology capitalism.It is ultimately about how technology should be liberatory, while warning against techno-utopianism.. As the planet slides further toward a potential future of catastrophic climate change, and ...

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