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A repository of texts, media and organisations sharing the interests of the Isle of Ruby conference organisers and a working place to develop content for the conference itself

Texts and media of interest

Artificial Intelligence

• 🌐 Should we be afraid of AI? | Luciano Floridi | aeon | 9 May 2016

• 📘 Superintelligence : paths, dangers, strategies | Nick Bostrom | OUP | 2016 ©2014

Automation

• ​📘 Automatic society | Bernard Stiegler | Polity Press | 2016

Inclusion

• ​:globe_with_meridians:​ World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web Part 1 and Part 2 | Bruce Lawson | Smashing Magazine | 6 & 13 Mar 2017

Infosphere | Philosophy of information

• 📘 Being digital | Nicholas Negroponte | Knopf | 2000 ©1995

• 📘 In Search of Certainty | Mark Burgess | O'Reilly | 2015

• 📘 The 4th revolution : how the infosphere is reshaping human reality | Luciano Floridi | OUP | 2016

• 🌐 Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor | Sir Tim Berners-Lee | World Wide Web Foundation | 12 Mar 2017

• 🌐 We didn’t lose control – it was stolen | Aral Balkan | 12 Mar 2017

Inspiration

• 🌐 Step Outside Your UX Bubble | Bastian Boss | edenspiekermann_
• 🌐 The bricks we lay | Ethan Marcotte | 9 Mar 2017

Media arts

• 📘 Symbolic misery | Bernard Stiegler | Cambridge | 2014

Philosophy of technology

• 📘 Software theory : a cultural and philosophical study | Federica Frabetti | Rowman & Littlefield International | 2015

• 📘 Stiegler and technics | Christina Howells; Gerald Moore | Edinburgh University Press | ©2013

• 📘 Technics and time / Vol. 1, The fault of Epimetheus | Bernard Stiegler | Stanford university press | 1998

Social Media

• 🌐 Is Snapchat the sign of a post-literary future? | John Naughton | The Guardian | 12 Mar 2017
• 📘 Taking care of youth and the generations | Bernard Stiegler | Stanford university press | 2010

Surveillance / Data protection

• 🌐 SXSW panel opens window into dangers of facial recognition software | Olivia Solon | The Guardian | 11 Mar 2017

Organisations

Culture

• Ars Industrialis | Association internationale pour une politique industrielle des technologies de l’esprit

Education

• Techfugees | A tech community response to the needs of refugees

Politics

• Debug Politics | Debug Politics hosts events aimed at converting the tech community's frustration with politics into meaningful action. Let's use our talents as developers, designers, and technologists to find innovative ways to make a real difference.

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