14 December 2022
4:00 pm
Debate Tech & Society: “Against the future”
Debate
Espacio Fundación Telefónica

Debate Tech & Society: “Against the future. Citizen Resistance to Climate Feudalism”

 

Aspen Institute España, in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica, hosted last  Wednesday, December 14th at 4.00 pm the fourth and last session of the VI Edition of the Tech & Society Program with Marta Peirano, journalist and researcher specializing in the relationship between technology and power,  on her latest book “Against the future. Citizen Resistance to Climate Feudalism” (Debate, 2022). The debate brought together 30 participants from the public sector, business, media, and academia.

 

We live in an era heavily dominated by the technological industry. Yet the technologies of our time are not designed to manage the climate crisis, because they are designed to manage us, potential climate refugees and political dissidents, during the crises of a planet on the brink of collapse. But one might wonder: is the climate crisis a technical problem that could be solved by technical means, or is it a complex problem whose management requires the recovery of other myths and paradigms? 

 

Marta Peirano

She is a writer and journalist specializing in technology and power. A columnist for El Pais, Muy Interesante, and RNE, she investigates the use of infrastructures, languages, protocols and artefacts designed for the centralized control and surveillance of people on a global scale. Her book “The Enemy Knows the System” was chosen by the NYT as one of the two best essays of 2019 published in Spanish. Her latest book, “Against the Future”, is a critical analysis of climate crisis management and mitigation technologies.

 

VI Edition of the Tech & Society Program

Aspen Institute España and Fundación Telefónica launched the VI Edition of the Tech & Society Program. The VI edition will bring together leaders from all sectors of civil society to discuss the new technological challenges and their influence in areas as diverse as human relations, politics, education, culture, economics and medicine

Tech & Society Program has become the main forum in Spain for reflection on the major issues raised by advances in digital technologies. The fifth edition will gather different leaders from all sectors of civil society to discuss the new technological challenges and their influence in areas as diverse as human relations, politics, education, culture, economics and medicine.

Leigh Hafrey, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sandy Parakilas, Chief Strategy Officer for the Center for Humane Technology, who recently appeared in the Netflix documentary “The Social Media Dilemma”, Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyBeth Noveck, director of The Gov Lab and professor in the Technology, Culture, and Society department at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, and who led the Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative, are some of the speakers who have participated as speakers through the Tech & Society Program throughout its different editions.

You can access former interviews and conferences of the Program on our  YouTube channel.

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  • Marta Peirano
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Espacio Fundación Telefónica
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  • Debate