CITP Seminar - Dreams of (Black) Tech Futures Past
This is what could have been. If the computer geeks at MIT in 1960 had just held on just a little while longer with the Mississippi freedom riders. If uprisings in Watts, and Detroit, and Newark and Kansas City did not make Black people the computing revolution’s first problem to solve. If Black people had averted the collision between civil rights and computing technology that Willard Wirtz once predicted. If Black people had bothered to seriously engage Roy Wilkins’ admonition to “comp...
United States Roy Wilkin Charlton Mcilwain Willard Wirtz Program Project Management Services Human Development
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