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Stephen Downes

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Don't miss this incredible visualization of the evolution of technologies since 1500. It stopped me in my tracks for about 15 minutes first thing this morning, even before coffee. "The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound." The image makes the case in a way that text never could. Via Luiza Jarovsky.

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