The roots of digital racism date back to 19th-century railroads - Fast Company
These 20 human beings are inventing new ways to harness the ever-accelerating cognitive power of agentic AI. LOGIN These 20 human beings are inventing new ways to harness the ever-accelerating cognitive power of agentic AI. 10-09-2021 TECH Addressing the inequality baked into today’s algorithms requires excavation of technology’s layered history. Celebration of completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad at what is now Golden Spike National Historic Site, Promontory Summit, Utah, 1869. [Photo: Andrew J. Russell/National Park Service/Wikimedia Commons] BY B.R. COHEN AND JENN STROUD ROSSMANN Americans’ introspective gaze is not what you’d call “unflinching.” The flinch, especially from matters of race and racism, is kind of our thing. But recently, even well-practiced flinchers have seen things that are hard to ignore. We’ve noticed new maps showing local viral and thermal hot zones that traced the shadowy outlines of redlined neighborhoods from the century before. We’ve worried th