URST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Organize, Grace Lee Boggs
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The technological evolution of cities and the future of planetary urbanization. Smart cities: using advance streams of data/technological devices to. 1863 --> "darwin among the machines" article was published in the. Argued that everyone was becoming more obsessed and reliant on mechanical life. Another essay was written in new zealand with the same ideal (also under an anonymous name) A third essay was published examining the telegraph (transmits messages across long distances) --> revealed to have been written by. John kerry --> flied to antarctica to observe the effects of climate change, the entire trip was documented online. Ended up taking a selfie with a penguin. At the same time, the aids and attendants were panicking as hillary was proving to lose, and trump was known to have certain views about climate change. When trump was elected, he posted conspiracy theories about climate change --> shows how technical acceleration leads to evolution.
