Facebook, Dynamite, Uber, Bombs, and You
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Hollerith punch‑card tabulators process 80 cards a minute and scale into national databases that IBM subsidiaries tie to census and bank records; that infrastructure helps organise atrocities (Dutch loss rates cited as 73% versus France 25%). Software examples: Volkswagen’s emissions‑cheat code leads to jail, Uber’s greyball avoids it; Therac‑25’s race condition kills patients; Toyota’s drive‑by‑wire stack overflow triggers sudden acceleration; Boeing’s 737 MAX software plus poor documentation causes two fatal crashes; Xinjiang surveillance uses facial recognition and millions detained.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:57Herman Hollerith
- 6:49IBM
- 8:38The Nuremberg Trials
- 10:30Breathe
- 11:21Hollerith
- 12:01Alfred Nobel
- 13:08Otto Hahn
- 13:37Eugenics
- 15:04thalidomide
- 16:21box cutters
- 17:13breathing in
- 18:05Volkswagen
- 18:19Uber
- 18:42IT Innovation
- 22:02Drive by Wire
- 24:42Deepfake videos
- 25:50Killer robots
- 27:30Police state
- 29:58Palantir
- 30:31Boeing 737 Max
- 31:52Mental Health Break
- 33:17Technology Development
- 35:20One piece of advice
- 35:57Ethics board
- 38:02Ethics as a subject
- 39:50ACMI Code of Ethics
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