# Alternative Modernities

> Where I blog about technology and society

## Pages
- [Thoughts](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/)
- [About Me](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/about-me)
- [Conservation by the People](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/conservation-by-the-people)
- [Current Research](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/current-research)
- [Public Interest Technology](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/public-interest-technology)
- [Teaching](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/teaching)
- [Technically Together](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/technicallytogether): Technically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World. A look at how technological changes have shaped the practice of togetherness and how citizens could realize thicker forms of community if they demanded more from their technologies
- [The Divide](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/the-divide)
- [Vitae](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/vitae)

## Blog Posts
- [Battling My Cell Phone for the Good Life (from Fall 2011)](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/battling-my-cell-phone-for-the-good-life-from-fall-2011)
- [Redirecting the Technoscience Machine (from Fall 2011)](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/redirecting-the-technoscience-machine-from-fall-2011)
- [On Digital Dualism: What  Would Neil Postman Say?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-digital-dualism-what-would-neil-postman-say)
- [The Symbolic Analyst Sweatshop in the Winner-Take-All Society](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-symbolic-analyst-sweatshop-in-the-winner-take-all-society)
- [Lock up Your Wi-Fi Cards: Searching for the Good Life in a Technological Age.](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/lock-up-your-wi-fi-cards-searching-for-the-good-life-in-a-technological-age)
- [The High Cost of Endless Novelty](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-high-cost-of-endless-novelty)
- [High Cost of Endless Novelty Part II](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/high-cost-of-endless-novelty-part-ii)
- [If Science Is on Your Side, Then Who's on Mine?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/if-science-is-on-your-side-then-whos-on-mine)
- [The Quixotic Dangers Inherent in Reading Too Much](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-quixotic-dangers-inherent-in-reading-too-much)
- [The Allure of Technological Solipsism](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-allure-of-technological-solipsism)
- [The Anatomy of a Trolley Accident](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-anatomy-of-a-trolley-accident)
- [I (Still) Don't Believe in Digital Dualism](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/i-still-dont-believe-in-digital-dualism)
- [On Introversion, the Internet, and the Importance of Small Talk](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-introversion-the-internet-and-the-importance-of-small-talk)
- [Why America Needs an Equivalent of the FDA for Educational Technologies](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-america-needs-an-equivalent-of-the-fda-for-educational-technologies)
- [On Being Driven by Driverless Cars](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-being-driven-by-driverless-cars)
- [Don't Drink the GMO Kool-Aid: Continuity Arguments and Controversial TechnoScience](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/dont-drink-the-gmo-kool-aid-continuity-arguments-and-controversial-technoscience)
- [What Was Step Two Again? Underpants Gnomes and the Technocratic Theory of Progress.](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/what-was-step-two-again-underpants-gnomes-and-the-technocratic-theory-of-progress)
- [Are These Shoes Made for Running? Uncertainty, Complexity and Minimalist Footwear](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/are-these-shoes-made-for-running-uncertainty-complexity-and-minimalist-footwear)
- [Mass Shooting Victims ARE on the Rise](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/mass-shooting-victims-are-on-the-rise)
- [Solar Freakin' Car Culture](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/solar-freakin-car-culture)
- [Why Are Scientists and Engineers Content to Work for Scraps when MBAs get a Seat at the Table?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-are-scientists-and-engineers-content-to-work-for-scraps-when-mbas-get-a-seat-at-the-table)
- [Why Not Break the Internet?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-not-break-the-internet)
- [Professional Rugby in the United States Should Be Community-Owned](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/professional-rugby-in-the-united-states-should-be-community-owned)
- [CfP - 4S 2015 - Open Panel: Steering Technology, Lessening Barriers and Embracing Partisanship ](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/cfp-4s-2015-open-panel-steering-technology-lessening-barriers-and-embracing-partisanship)
- [There is No Anti-Scientism Movement, and It’s a Shame Too.](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/there-is-no-anti-scientism-movement-and-its-a-shame-too)
- [Forbes' Faith-Based Understanding of Science](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/forbes-faith-based-understanding-of-science)
- [Science's Legitimacy Problem](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/sciences-legitimacy-problem)
- [Why It Is Too Early for Sanders Supporters to Get Behind Hillary Clinton](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-it-is-too-early-for-sanders-supporters-to-get-behind-hillary-clinton)
- [The Irony of American Political Discourse: The Denial of Politics](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-irony-of-american-political-discourse-the-denial-of-politics)
- [CfP: Can Improved Science and Technology Mean Progress? - 4S Annual Meeting, Boston, 2017](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/cfp-can-improved-science-and-technology-mean-progress-4s-annual-meeting-boston-2017)
- [The (Inevitable?) Exportation of the American Way of Life](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-inevitable-exportation-of-the-american-way-of-life)
- [Andrew Potter’s Macleans Shitstorm](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/andrew-potters-macleans-shitstorm)
- [Privacy Threats and the Counterproductive Refuge of VPNs](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/privacy-threats-and-the-counterproductive-refuge-of-vpns)
- [Moving Beyond Science and Pseudoscience in the Facilitated Communication Debate](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/moving-beyond-science-and-pseudoscience-in-the-facilitated-communication-debate)
- [Science, Politics, and Partisanship](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/science-politics-and-partisanship)
- [On Americans’ Acquiescence to Injustice](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-americans-acquiescence-to-injustice)
- [On the Myth of Net Neutrality](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-the-myth-of-net-neutrality)
- [Automating Medicine](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/automating-medicine)
- [Policing the Boundaries of Medicine](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/policing-the-boundaries-of-medicine)
- [Musk's NY to DC Hyperloop Likely to Be a Boondoggle](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/musks-ny-to-dc-hyperloop-likely-to-be-a-boondoggle)
- [On Making the Conservative Case for Progressive Politics](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-making-the-conservative-case-for-progressive-politics)
- [Community in the Age of Limited Liability](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/community-in-the-age-of-limited-liability)
- [Technically Together: Reconstructing Community in a Networked World](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/technically-together-reconstructing-community-in-a-networked-world)
- [Why Didn't Everyone Recognize that Semi-Autonomous Cars Would Impair Drivers?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-didnt-everyone-recognize-that-semi-autonomous-cars-would-impair-drivers)
- [Why the Way We Talk About Politics Will Ensure that Mass Shootings Keep Happening](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-the-way-we-talk-about-politics-will-ensure-that-mass-shootings-keep-happening)
- [Against Epistocracy](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/against-epistocracy)
- [Why the Networked Age is Defined by Mass Shootings](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-the-networked-age-is-defined-by-mass-shootings)
- [Why Putting Guns in Schools is a Terrible Idea](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-putting-guns-in-schools-is-a-terrible-idea)
- [The Limits of Machine-Centered Medicine](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-limits-of-machine-centered-medicine)
- [The Decline of American Community Makes Parenting Miserable](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-decline-of-american-community-makes-parenting-miserable)
- [Don't Shovel Shit: The Cracks in the Ecomodernist Nuclear Dream](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/dont-shovel-shit-the-cracks-in-the-ecomodernist-nuclear-dream)
- [CfP - Luddism: Epistemological and Political - 4S New Orleans September 4-7, 2019](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/cfp-luddism-epistemological-and-political-4s-new-orleans-september-4-7-2019)
- [The Pedagogy of Control](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-pedagogy-of-control)
- [This Neighborhood in Germany Shows Us Why American Planned Communities are So Abysmal](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/this-neighborhood-in-germany-shows-us-why-american-planned-communities-are-so-abysmal)
- [Who Needs What Technology Analysis?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/who-needs-what-technology-analysis)
- [Community Life in the Playborhood](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/community-life-in-the-playborhood)
- [Why Scientific Literacy Won’t Help Stop the Coronavirus Pandemic](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-scientific-literacy-wont-help-stop-the-coronavirus-pandemic)
- [What Critics of Planet of the Humans Get Wrong](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/what-critics-of-planet-of-the-humans-get-wrong): Critics are too obsessed with debunking film to really engage with its central message
- [Radiation Politics in a Pandemic](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/radiation-politics-in-a-pandemic)
- [Reopening Colleges & Universities an Unwise, Needless Gamble](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/reopening-colleges-universities-an-unwise-needless-gamble)
- [Democracy and the Nuclear Stalemate](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/democracy-and-the-nuclear-stalemate)
- [How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Live with Conspiracy Theorists](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to-live-with-conspiracy-theorists)
- [If You Don’t Want Outbreaks, Don’t Have In-Person Classes](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/if-you-dont-want-outbreaks-dont-have-in-person-classes)
- [When Does Someone Deserve to be Called "Doctor"?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/when-does-someone-deserve-to-be-called-doctor): Why we shouldn't let the awfulness of Joseph Epstein prevent us from thinking about what makes someone a "Doctor"
- [No, Electing Joe Biden Didn’t Save American Democracy](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/no-electing-joe-biden-didnt-save-american-democracy)
- [CfP - STS for Everybody - 4S Toronto Open Panel](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/cfp-sts-for-everybody-4s-toronto-open-panel)
- [Escaping the Ecomodernist Binary](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/escaping-the-ecomodernist-binary)
- [On Vaccine Mandates](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/on-vaccine-mandates)
- [Preventing Technological Catastrophe: Intelligent Trial & Error](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/preventing-technological-catastrophe-intelligent-trial-error)
- [Why Tolerate Intolerance?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/why-tolerate-intolerance)
- [A Veneer of Objectivity](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/a-veneer-of-objectivity)
- [Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/fact-checking-may-be-important-but-it-wont-help-americans-learn-to-disagree-better)
- [The Twitter Surveillance State](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/the-twitter-surveillance-state)
- [Rural People and Conservation](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/rural-people-and-conservation)
- [Navigating Post-Normality for Contentious Science Policy](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/navigating-post-normality-for-contentious-science-policy)
- [Unsustainable Alarmism](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/unsustainable-alarmism)
- [From Honest Brokers to Thoughtful Partisans?](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/from-honest-brokers-to-thoughtful-partisans)
- [Crisis Science](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/crisis-science)
- [Best Books to Save America's Dying Democracy](https://www.taylorcdotson.com/thoughts/best-books-to-save-americas-dying-democracy)