
#249 Digital anthropology with Genevieve Bell
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The Future of Technology
The original typewriter was designed to be demoed and in order to demo well they wanted to be able to type its name off its top line hit the carriage return a couple of times. So in your modern phone you are carrying around also the need for that object keyboard to be displayed to clients in the 1870s. That same phone probably is running some kind of lightweight AI stack that's making some decisions for you it's doing a little bit of proactive computing those notions were first tested in trial in the 1950s so we can talk about contemporary technologies but often they're carrying around much older ideas in them.
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