Culture and Coexistence into the Great Unknown
On this EcoJustice Radio show we share a panoply of voices speaking out about the dangers of AI – Artificial Intelligence – and this insane boom in water-and-power-hungry data centers throughout the U.S. Steven J. Kung from No Data Center Monterey Park joins us as well as journalists, activists, and academics weigh in.
“The Atrocity Exhibition” is J.G. Ballard’s instruction manual in how to disrupt mass media and recontextualize technology in a dystopian landscape overrun with industrial waste and technological white noise. Watch the piece on Ballard and the Motorcar, that careens across the landscape of his controversial novel, “Crash.”
The idea of the “utopian” community began in 1516 with Sir Thomas More’s fictional perfected society to present-day attempts to build the most sustainable urban ecosystem. With the case of Songdo International Business District, South Korea, we begin a series of case studies in the success and failure of utopian experiments in living sustainably.
That magic iCloud, our e-brilliance is being beamed up to, ain’t no cloud, but warehouses stuffed with memory-servers kept running 24-7 by mammoth banks of polluting diesel generators.