Humans, Labour and Technology
summary
The talk traces concrete instances where infrastructure shapes resistance and vice versa from Montgomery’s bus boycott that sustains a self‑organized ride network for 381 days with dozens of pickup points and thousands participating to Healthcare.gov’s meltdown on Oct 1 2013 that sees 5 million visitors and 6 signups in 24 hours then a tech surge that halves submission time and removes ~80% of steps leading from six to over 8 million enrolled within six months, and contrasts containerization that slashed longshore jobs from over a million to under a hundred thousand.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:07Protest and infrastructure
- 7:39Healthcare.gov failures
- 12:15Designing with respect
- 14:00Supply chains and automation
- 17:56Tech precarity and labor
- 20:32Resistance beyond protest
- 21:58Defining resistance
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