A dominant culture of tech at present is that of Web 3.0, blockchain and AI evangelists. This appears as a fusion of two (mostly white-cis-straight) male archetypes, the ‘bro’ and the ‘nerd’, and here the worst features of both are amplified in combination. This culture is incredibly alienating to any ‘others’ in tech, undermines all forces of tech for social good, and creates tangible harm in the hyper-capitalist almost-technocracy we are in.

Web3 vs Web 3.0 is a crucial subtlety but not even distinguished by eg job postings
tech ethics is more than just AI ethics ! (and AI ethics is more than ‘robot: don’t kill human’)
the metaverse is not the metaverse as seen by Meta
impacts of de-centering the human experience
start-up jobs are abundant, just drop your ethical standards! (/sarcasm)

technological determinism

the purported inevitability of technological ‘progress’, forward march, innovation for innovations sake, imagined futures from high-tech sci-fi media. tech + future (+ capitalism)