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Comments on: The most important parts of the Digital Age https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/response/the-most-important-parts-of-the-digital-age/ CSC 105, Spring 2019 Fri, 17 May 2019 17:11:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Sean Haggerty https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/response/the-most-important-parts-of-the-digital-age/#comment-143 Fri, 17 May 2019 17:11:57 +0000 https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/?p=775#comment-143 TJ, thanks for raising the issue of data sovereignty. I think this is especially important to keep in mind considering how much capital is being produced from the private data of citizens. I also share your concern that historically disenfranchised groups might continue to bear the brunt of these costs as social issues reproduce themselves materially and ideologically. This of course is just one of the many problems we now face from globalization and the interconnections produced by the internet.

Hopefully moving forward the possible of a discursive process of legal thought that includes identity groups with less power and social capital will become a more integral part of the production of technologies. It seems doubtful that we can contain the spread of tech, but hopefully we can steer and cajole tech in the right direction.

]]> By: Kate Smith https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/response/the-most-important-parts-of-the-digital-age/#comment-117 Fri, 03 May 2019 21:49:53 +0000 https://digitalage19.sites.grinnell.edu/?p=775#comment-117 TJ, your comments regarding dilemmas of the digital age encapsulate some of the thoughts I too have had in the past week. You mention that, “if anything,” things will have to get worse before they get better; though mine is a somewhat pessimistic viewpoint, I tend to align with the “if anything” of it all. Likely, without our full acknowledgment, things have progressed past how we currently view our privacy as being infringed upon. Especially with our increasing reliance on technology as well, I wonder how much people will be able to protect and value their privacy. What if the cost of being unable to fulfill job requirements or social norms – a good example of this could be Google Docs and Gmail. This line of thought also touches in with what you are saying about the pace of technological advancement – the fact that products and services that are inherently biased are being put out on the market without much monitoring means that even if a protocol was put in place, the growth rate could be too much.

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