Marcel O'Gorman

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

@STurkle Guiding image for my spring "Digital Abstinence" grad course, which has been moved online due to COVID-19.

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Hey @arcadefire. I made you an art project. Sort of. https://t.co/W8BBcHd9LY

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Recalling Jaron Lanier's guest talk in Waterloo, where he made fun of Canadians for letting Google walk in and take over. True. Sidewalk Labs’s Ambitious Smart City Plans Now Face a Legal Battle by @FastCompany https://t.co/UPf4D3nu0q

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Watch “CHT Presents Humane: A New Agenda for Tech” on #Vimeo https://t.co/VpNyOai5tP

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

As with all big tech interventions in schools, “There has not been enough research” to justify the disruption.

[NYT Business @nytimesbusiness]

Eight months after public schools near Wichita, Kan., adopted online tools developed by Facebook engineers to teach their children, parents and students are rebelling. https://t.co/2hASt6QyEL

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Calling out "the gods of Silicon Valley"? More please.

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

"My question to you is, is this what you want? Is this how you want history to remember you? As the handmaidens to authoritarianism?"

Watch as @carolecadwalla calls out the "gods of Silicon Valley" for being on the wrong side of history: https://t.co/SrTKzCbPSV #TED2019

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Smartphone use in class needs more research, says University of Waterloo prof https://t.co/7HYiZPhxVX

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Incredible.
Ontario to ban cellphones in classrooms next school year | CBC News https://t.co/qz5tkaUWe4

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

@stewartbrand How might the infrastructure required to produce tech mash up with the idea of Nature As Infrastructure? Thinking of projects like Anatomy of AI: https://t.co/CS1YCkHUMC

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

Good trend of thought here.

“Natural infrastructure” deserves emergent usage as a term and idea to conjure with.

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

The Scientists Who Make Apps Addictive by 1843 Magazine https://t.co/tsIflzJDwy

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Digital sins? Yep. Also this. https://t.co/fFgpvSsupK

[Alex Rampell @arampell]

This is the most brilliant iPhone app grouping I’ve ever seen...

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

@arampell @ianmst Ha! More digital sins: https://t.co/fFgpvSsupK

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Note the focus on "interdisciplinary" solutions, which include the humanities. I was expecting a hint of toxic e-waste and unsustainable mining here too...

[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

"Choking on Digital Pollution" in Washington Monthly repeats what @HumaneTech_ has advocated since last year with our Ledger of Harms. Tech attention companies privately profit while harms/pollution show up on balance sheets of society: https://t.co/ZDhvX8dksL

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Amazing to watch Tim Cook weighing in on shadowy data brokers. Let's see where he can take it: @FastCompany https://t.co/9aM68L2T2v

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Including a #UWaterloo researcher

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How Tech Workers Became Activists, Leading a Resistance Movement That Is Shaking Up Silicon Valley by @FastCompany https://t.co/Ztx3r9Cpn5

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

@tristanharris @HumaneTech_ Paleolithic instincts? Sounds like you could use a media theorist on your team who is familiar with the work of André Leroi-Gourhan. https://t.co/46abeFNiOK

[Tristan Harris @tristanharris]

Looking for UX designers available immediately in SF to help @HumaneTech_ collect, mock up and organize a "humane" design patterns library for solutions that re-align tech w/ our paleolithic instincts. Respond w/ links to your work… and meet each other too :)

[Marcel O'Gorman @marcelogorman]

Tristan Harris proclaims that technoculture is "philosophically impoverished." Wait until he discovers Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio. https://t.co/av1u6cs56y via @WIRED