Education
#1 Jack Stilgoe Talks with Nuzhah Miah About Technology Policy
2021-02-13
STS student, Nuzhah Miah, interviews Dr Jack Stilgoe about Evgeny Morozov’s 2014 book, To Save Everything Click Here, asking him why it’s recommended reading for new students coming into UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS).
The book they are discussing is Evgeny Morozov (2014) To Save Everything Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the urge to fix problems that don’t exist (Penguin).
The publisher’s description reads: “Our gadgets are getting smarter. Technology can log what we buy, customize what we consume and enable us to save and share every aspect of our existence. In the future, we're told, it will even make public life - from how we're governed to how we record crime - better. But can the digital age fix everything? Should it? By quantifying our behaviour, Evgeny Morozov argues, we are profoundly reshaping society - and risk losing the opacity and imperfection that make us human.”
Featuring
Interviewee: Dr Jack Stilgoe, Associate Professor of Social Studies of Science at UCL.
Interviewer: Nuzhah Miah, student in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS). She also is host of "The Spilled Milk" podcast.
This interview took place in August 2020.
Show credits
The host was Professor Joe Cain.
Editing and postproduction by Miah and Cain.
WeAreSTS producer is Professor Joe Cain.
Music credits
With apologies, Cain neglected to mention our use of the lovely, “Sweeter Vermouth,” in the episode’s end credits.
1. “Sweeter Vermouth,” by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4450-sweeter-vermouth
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
2. “Rollin At 5,” by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/5000-rollin-at-5
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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