Skip to main content

technology colonialism

Map of the underwire active and planned submarine cable systems around the world. For the purposes of this article, the map illustrates the vast number of internet cables that cluster around the Western world.
Issue 43 by Anonymous Author on November 15th, 2016
Lack of ethical processes around data collection and management, and ongoing Western control over data, continue the legacy of colonialism within aid work.
Series of multi-colored globes in a pile.
Issue 41 by Archana Madhavan on September 7th, 2016
If an app isn’t developed firstly for the Western market, tech press suggests its success isn’t worth knowing about.
A humanoid robot gazes into space, mechanical parts visible between plates of "flesh".
Issue 32 by Meghan Trainor on February 2nd, 2016
The interrogation of the robot’s motives interrogates its algorithms, its programmatic lineage, its manufacture, the factory of its origins, the mountains from which its metal was mined.