Let's Make Technology more Inclusive
summary
Argues that openness without accessibility empowers only a tiny elite and shows practical fixes: a shift to paper electronics and copper-tape kits plus a clip-style microcontroller that clips to paper, a cloud-compiled, sound-based upload method to program devices from phones, and curriculum design emphasizing balance, familiarity, simplicity. Cites universities that move female CS grads from under 10–15% to about 45% and product sales flipping to 60–70% female buyers. Microcontroller goes into open beta with browser and compatibility testing.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:36How inclusive are we
- 1:06People in the purple bar
- 1:48We all use technology
- 2:16Democracy is hard
- 3:59Sharing your source code
- 4:34The hey bunny
- 5:29Bias in computer science
- 6:09Women in computer science
- 6:29Cultural bias
- 7:08Experiments
- 7:21Carnegie Mellon
- 7:37Harvey Mudd
- 10:06Paper Electronics
- 10:49Crowdfunding
- 11:56Balance
- 12:22Design can revolutionize technology
- 12:57The problem with blueprints
- 13:45Engineering and Design
- 14:13Diversity is Inclusive
- 15:46Familiar Things are Comfortable
- 16:17Paper is an Expressive Materials
- 16:31Paper is an Engineering Material
- 16:58Paper vs Breadboard
- 17:42Paperclip
- 17:54Flexible Rigid PCB
- 18:04Paper Circuits
- 18:19Simplicity
- 19:26User experience
- 19:47Use cases
- 20:15Why open source
- 20:51Questions
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