@booklet {11703, title = {"Two People"}, howpublished = {Terraform Watch Worlds Burn}, year = {2022}, month = {2022}, pages = {270-276}, publisher = {MCD X FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Motherboard/Vice}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

An elderly woman tells the story of her and her partner\’s life together and reflects upon the world they live in where the fundamental principle is that the individual \“cannot be trusted\” and must be \“protected from yourself\” (276). The main innovation is the 3.0 Act that \“requires every American male to undergo a vasectomy the year of his tenth birthday. The only way to get the vasectomy reversed is to graduate from high school with at least a 3.0 grade point average\” (272). Technology is used to \“objectively\” make decisions about many aspects of life.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {9780374602666}, author = {Moreno, Gus}, editor = {Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans} } @booklet {10438, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Amazon{\textquoteright}s First Fully Automated Factory Is Anything But{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The New York Times}, year = {2019}, month = {October 21, 2019 with over 55 comments}, pages = {online}, abstract = {

The dystopia of working as a support to the robots in a warehouse, repairing them, cleaning up after them, doing the work they can\’t do in conditions designed for the robots and not for humans.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/opinion/future-amazon-automation.html }, author = {Brian Merchant} } @booklet {10439, title = {"The Convoy"}, howpublished = {Motherboard}, year = {2019}, month = {January 24, 2019}, abstract = {

A near future dystopia in which a film telling the story of a terrorist cell within a convoy of immigrants moving toward the U.S. border is deliberately released to the media as an actual threat, and even though no evidence is found and the actor who played the leader in the film offers to testify, he is manipulated into trying to flee and imprisoned. Everything was designed to give the president an excuse to move troops to the border.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, url = {https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjqxxm/the-convoy}, author = {Brian Merchant} }