Together with a group of academics, Associate Professor Christoph Becker has released a report calling for a new future for technology. Its title — Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Another Tech is Possible — makes the goals explicit as does the hashtag #techotherwise.
“Our proposal is grounded on a key premise. To redirect Big Tech’s excessive revenue flow, we must transform the conditions and funding structures that enable it,” Becker tweeted earlier this week, citing a passage from the report.
He and his co-authors — Wolmet Barendregt, EunJeong Cheon, Faculty of Information Professor Emeritas Andrew Clement, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Douglas Schuler and Lucy Suchman — believe that now is the time to radically redirect the future of tech. To think “tech otherwise” is to move away from binaries of tech or not (though we may sometimes need to make that judgement), in favour of how we could make tech differently, in the service of our collective and sustainable well being, Becker explained.
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