Reboot

Essays and events about how we can reclaim techno-optimism for a better collective future.

Technologists have long imagined their work in a vacuum. Hurry up, it’s time to build! they proclaim, moving fast and breaking plenty along the way. Rather than hacking away at half-baked solutions, we aim to redefine what “success” in tech means altogether. At Reboot, we believe: Technology is part of a system. We analyze tech in the context of the institutions and ideologies it shapes and is shaped by. Technologists should also be thinkers, writers, and advocates. Society thrives when we all have the courage to state the future we want to live in. Optimism is an action, not a belief.…

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