An Answer to Big Tech? Tech at a Human Scale

Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech

• Nov 2023, Prime ads expected to “reach 115M viewers per month.”

• Aral Balkan (Small Tech Foundation): “We didn’t lose control. It was stolen.”

• Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste (2020) is now a film.

• Marjorie Kelly: Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises. Marjorie with Laura Flanders (Dec 2023).

• Toni Morrison’s “A Humanist View”, The Source of Self-Regard (Knopf, 2019). Transcript and audio.

• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs at the United Nations Food Systems Pre-Summit, 2021.

• The wealth of one billionaire compared to average US household income ($65K).

• Techcrunch (June 2023): US intel confirms it purchases US citizens’ personal data.

• Prof. Shoshana Zuboff (Harvard Business School) defines surveillance capitalism.

• Wangari Maathai describes the Green Belt Movement in her 2004 Nobel Lecture.

• How emotions shape our identities, cultures, and societies: “The Cultural Politics of Emotion” (Sara Ahmed).

• “The Body Keeps The Score” (Bessel van der Kolk) educates on the impact of emotional pain and trauma on our physical bodies.

• “Whitey On The Moon”: Gil Scott-Heron on The Revolution Begins.