Benjamin Law
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327 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 4d ago
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Mel, you're obviously very attached to your computers.
Are you ever worried that
we generally are becoming too attached to computers nowadays.
They've started to inhibit how we engage with the world rather than opening the world up to us like they did for you in the early days.
But I hear you in that we've come full circle from an opaque understanding of how computers work to democratizing them, less opaque, and now ubiquity and more opaqueness that we're governed by AI and algorithms.
What do you think will help?
What's the solution in kind of like breaking that relationship with these systems?
Yeah.
Well, you say you are a techno-optimist.
Why are you a techno-optimist and what are you optimistic about?
with them.
Melhuang Buntine, thank you so much for sharing your optimism with me and for joining me on Conversations today.
My guest on Conversations today was technologist and designer Mel Huang-Buntine.
She has curated an exhibition at the National Communication Museum in Melbourne called Radical Computing.
This episode of Conversations was recorded on the lands of the Gadigal people.
It was produced by Maggie Morris.
Executive producer is Nicola Harrison.
I'm Benjamin Law.
Thanks for listening.
You might have encountered Gamilaroi woman Brooke Boney with your morning coffee while she's been reading the news on Triple J or doing the entertainment reporting on the Today Show when she was sent to Paris for the Olympics, to the Oscars, to parties and red carpets around the world and here at home.
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