Self-updating Prophecies: An Inquiry into Imagining and Building Decentralized Sensor Networks

Posted on by Andrés Domínguez

New online first article in Science, Technology and Human Values

Abstract

Recent years have seen remarkable efforts to decentralize the deployment of infrastructure for sensors and Internet of Things (IoT) applications using emerging low-power protocols. These arrangements are predicated as
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What’s so troubling about the metaverse and what can we do about it? (Featuring a short sci-fi story by Davina Thandi)

Posted on by Andrés Domínguez

High profile moves by big technology companies such as Facebook’s rebranding as Meta and their acquisition of virtual reality hardware manufacturer Oculus, have created a sense of inevitability about the advent of the metaverse. Mark Zuckerberg described the metaverse as …