Cyborg rights activist, designer & developer

Aral Balkan

Aral Balkan is a designer and developer who has been creating with computers for over 35 years. He has spent the last five of those working on the problem of technologically regulating the abuses of surveillance capitalism.

In this talk, Aral presented his latest thoughts on how we can create alternatives to surveillance capitalism that cannot be co-opted. His suggestion is simple: think small.

BIO

Aral Balkan is a designer and developer who has been creating with computers for over 35 years. He has spent the last five of those working on the problem of technologically regulating the abuses of surveillance capitalism, as well as designing freedom-respecting alternatives to it.

In this talk, Aral presented his latest thoughts on how we can create alternatives to surveillance capitalism that cannot be co-opted. His suggestion is simple: think small.

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