i'm on record as lamenting that the ground has been seaded as calling these things smart s. We had a snappier and more accurate term to to describe them, right? Lak, a surveillance toaste. And so i feel like these kind of smart gadgets have like proliferated over the past five or so years. You you needed to have a smart toaster and a smart fridge. And it's like, why? Why does everything need to be smart?
Paris Marx is joined by Chris Gilliard to discuss the ethics of tech media recommending surveillance devices, aspects of “smart” technologies you might not have considered, and why we should think twice about surrounding ourselves with cameras and microphones.
Chris Gilliard is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center. Follow Chris on Twitter at @hypervisible.
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