Can We Still Build Technology for the Right Reasons
summary
The talk traces concrete failures and fixes: Therac-25: six radiation overdoses, four deaths exposes software race conditions; Mirai botnet knocks out about a third of the internet in 2016 shows insecure IoT used for mass DDoS; a Fitbit records 119 bpm from a raw chicken breast and its data helps convict an alleged assault victim, while an Uber test car’s sensors miss a jaywalking pedestrian and kill them. The claim: design choices embed political power and provoke proposals from regulation and criminal penalties to breaking platforms and collective worker action.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:21What is Therac25
- 12:54What is quality
- 16:19The Internet of Things
- 24:46In intractable properties
- 29:11Transit strike
- 31:01Solutions
