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The Charisma Machine (2019, MIT Press) 5 stars

A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.

In The Charisma Machine, Morgan …

Nostalgia is a big theme. I think it's a valid critique of the OLPC qua educational project, although nostalgia / retrocomputing / techno-minimalism also seems like a valid response to the more dystopian aspects of modern big tech.