The Limits of Calculation and Datafication - Toward Technologies of Life

From the challenges we saw first-hand during the COVID 19 pandemic to questions of the climate and risks associated with habitability, we live in a time where the brand of 'division' has spread far and wide. Tied to this are the common critiques we see of technology - which tend to catastrophize and block a real re-imagining of how the powerful digital tools of today and tomorrow may bring us together. This talk will give examples around the world where digital technologies, far from isolating us or treating us merely as quantifiable individuals, bring us all together.

The powerful ingredient here is human creativity and the compassion so many of us have that recognize that we are all in it together, as a global community. From policy I have worked on with major global figures to jobs of the future to the re-imagining of technology to transform waste into new forms of value and the voices of all peoples worldwide, I will share numerous examples that point a path forward toward technologies of - interbeing and interconnection; life-supporting rather than crisis-centered. This talk will provide us all with a concrete and powerful vision of digitally-mediated life that lifts all beings on our planet.