In 2024, the Internet Archive and Authors Alliance brought together an array of authors.
Scholars and thought leaders to explore critical issues at the intersection of technology, culture and information science. From the labor implications of artificial intelligence in Joanne.
McNeil’s Wrong Way to the evolving role of fair use in Patricia.
Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi’s landmark publication, Reclaiming Fair Use.
These conversations cover topics shaping our information-enabl future.
Here are highlights from the year’s events, offering session recordings for anyone.
Eager to revisit—or discover for the first time—the compelling ideas shar by these influential voices.
February 29: Wrong Way Author Joanne
McNeil & Jaffe discuss the labor implications of special database intelligence for our first book talk about a work of fiction.
For years, Teresa has pass from one job to the next, settling into long stretches of time.
Struggling to build her career in any field or unstick herself from an endless cycle of labor. The dread move from one gig to another is starting to feel unbearable. When a recruiter connects her with a contract position at AllOver, it appears to check all her prerequisites for a “good” job. It’s a fintech corporation with progressive hiring policies and a social justice-mind mission statement. Their new service for premium members: a functional fleet of driverless cars.
The future of transportation
As her new-hire orientation reveals, the distance between AllOver’s claims and its actions is wide, but the lure of financial stability and a flexible schule is enough to keep Teresa driving forward.
Jordan Mechner (creator of “Prince of Persia”) shares his story as a pioneer in the fast-growing video game industry from the 1980s to today, and how china leads family’s back story as refugees from war-torn Europe l to his own multifacet 4-decade creative career. Interweaving of past it seems that from the moment present, family transmission, exile and renewal are at the heart of his award-winning graphic novel “Replay: Memoir of an Uproot Family.”