Future Histories is a book about computers by author Lizzie O’Shea.
In Future History, public interest attorney and digital expert Lizzie O’Shea argues that we need to stop looking ahead and start looking back. O’Shea builds a “usable past” that can help us define our digital future.
Can the Paris Commune tell us about previous experiments in sharing resources – like the internet – in common? Can Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial self-determination theories help us build a digital world in which everyone can participate equally?
Can American revolutionary Tom Paine’s theory of economic and democratic redistribution help debates about equal digital access? What can the struggle for indigenous land teach us about managing our digital environment? And, how is Elon Musk not a future visionary but a throwback to Victorian tech utopians?
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Future Histories
- What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
