Math is not neutral (neither are technologies, libraries, syllabi, textbooks, digital assistants, smarthomes, etc…)

IN this week’s readings on the “Internet of Things,” I was fascinated by the implications of the structural assumptions necessary for a connected world. Adam Greenfield uses two specific examples–the first, involving RAND’s assessment of fire department allotments in NYC, drives home the real-world costs of assuming that data is gathered from and organized through a … Read more