Maureen McHugh
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Maureen McHugh is a Hugo Award winning science fiction writer. In the past few years she’s also written for the Webby Award winning ARGs I Love Bees and The Dark Knight. She lives in Austin Texas.

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11:55am Tuesday, 03/10/2009

Technology Uses Us: Humans as an Ecological Niche

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Location: Gold Room

Maureen McHugh (.)

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More and more we use biological metaphors for our technology. Cars break and are fixed, but computers get infected. Technology evolves, competes, exploits our emotions. We are the ecological niche for technology. And its uses of us may be no more benevolent than our uses of our own ecological niches. Read more.

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