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Nicole Aschoff
Nicole Aschoff is a writer, editor, and public sociologist. She writes regularly on technology, labour, politics, feminism, the economy and the environment. Nicole recently authored The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power and Resistance in the New Gilded Age where she examines the cultural, political, and economic shifts reshaping American society since the introduction of the smartphone in 2007. Here she interrogates the disconnect between the ordinary user seeking entertainment information and the big tech companies looking for profit. Nicole Aschoff's first book, The New Prophets of Capital, examined the feeling that capitalism is leading us in the wrong direction. She argues that it is time for ideas that challenge the corse assumptions of our for-profit system, covering topics from feminism to green capitalism and therapy culture. Nicole also acts as an editor at large at Jacobin magazine.
Nicole Aschoff is a writer, editor, and public sociologist. She writes regularly on technology, labour, politics, feminism, the economy and the environment. Nicole recently authored The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power and Resistance in the New Gilded Age where she examines the cultural, political, and economic shifts reshaping American society since the introduction of the smartphone in 2007. Here she interrogates the disconnect between the ordinary user seeking entertainment information and the big tech companies looking for profit. Nicole Aschoff's first book, The New Prophets of Capital, examined the feeling that capitalism is leading us in the wrong direction. She argues that it is time for ideas that challenge the corse assumptions of our for-profit system, covering topics from feminism to green capitalism and therapy culture. Nicole also acts as an editor at large at Jacobin magazine.
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What Machines Can't Do
Corruption and Climate Change
Humans versus Nature
Blind Data
March of the Machines
The World in Our Hands
The Puzzle of Progress
The Dark Side of Environmentalism
Mind Machines
James Lovelock: Creativity in Science & Gaia Theory
What We Don't Know About CO2
Can We Control AI?
Is Digital Thinking Different?
Climate Change and Britain’s Future
How to Thrive in a Digital Age
Creative Robots
The Habits of Nature
Genes, Memes and Temes
The Myth of Scarcity
The Fifth Crime
Designing Life
Nine Million Steps in Solitude
Staying Human in Cyberspace
The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine
Global Overhaul
Future Storm
Why Trolls Matter
Rise of the Machines
My Avatar, Myself
Touching Cyberspace
Zanna Clay | In-depth Interview
Digital Apes
How to talk about climate change
The smartphone society
Extinction and Renewal
The AI illusion
Mind over matter
How to live forever
Technology in trouble
Electric brains
The technology trap
Scientific freedom
Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
AI, emotions and the tech evolution
The next environmental crisis
AI and the future of the mind
Nature: friend or foe?
Human justice and machine intelligence
In search of a cleaner world
The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous