Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group: Professor Medina presents material from Cybernetic Revolutionaries, her book-in-progress that tells the history of Chile’s Project Cybersyn. She links this historical case study to present day issues in e-governance, participatory design, and computer surveillance. https://twitter.com/edenmedina
22 January 2013 at 1:11 am |
Terrific talk. Thanks for sharing. Far from mere history, the idea of creating a room with interfaces that allows humans to control machines is now at play with the proposal by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to create a system to monitor financial algorithms that engage in high frequency trading
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/10/sec-high-frequency-trading_n_987378.html