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DESCRIPTION:With Lizzie O’Shea\, Lawyer\, writer and founder of Digital R
 ights Watch\n\nA Research\, Ethics and Society Initiative and Sara Fine In
 stitute Lecture\n\nToo often\, technology is presented without context. It
  is treated as a natural phenomenon or a force of nature\, inevitable and 
 unstoppable. To make sense of our digital present\, there is an instinctiv
 e sense that we need to imagine the future\, and bend society around the p
 ath determined for us by tech. \n\nBut making technology is a human activi
 ty\, and the technological problems we face are human problems. An underst
 anding of history\, philosophy\, sociology and the arts is invaluable to m
 aking sense of technological problems. If we want to reclaim the present a
 s the cause of a different future\, we don't just need coders and engineer
 s\, we need people from all different disciplines to collaborate and make 
 the most of the potential of the digital revolution.\n\nThrough this colla
 boration\, we can create a digital future in which we are not treated as n
 ameless cohorts to be processed by machines\, or raw data for analyzing\, 
 but instead understood as people with agency\, dignity\, curiosity and des
 ire to shape our own destiny. The stakes could not be higher: as we face p
 roblems like the climate crisis\, wealth inequality and the decay of socia
 l democracies\, it is vital that we find ways to make technology work for 
 the many\, not the few.\n\nRegister here.
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SUMMARY:A Usable Past for a Democratic Future: How Looking Backward Can Hel
 p Us Navigate the Digital Revolution with Lizzie O'Shea
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