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APGT’s Five Principles for Understanding Tech

In collaboration with the 22nd Allied Media Conference, A People’s Guide to Tech (APGT) designed a series of art cards that share our Five Principles for Understanding Tech, five ideas designed to promote holistic and reciprocal relationships  to technology. The Towards A Future of Technology art cards are available to AMC participants and pods, as well as on our website. 

These cards come from our zine Towards a Future of Technology, which will be released later this year. The cards offer a glimpse of what we believe is required to see technology as all that it could be: a tool of mutuality, a function of the natural world, and a key to opening up more ways of understanding, knowing, relating, and being. To learn more about the forthcoming zine and the other creative and educational materials we’re working on, sign up here for our mailing list. 

APGT’s Five Principles for Understanding Tech 

  1. Technology is Transformative. Technology has the power to fundamentally change how we consider and interact with the world. This ability is transformative. 
  1. Technology is Relational. None of us lives alone. We are constantly building relationships with one another, other creatures, and the planet. Our technology is intertwined with those relationships.  
  1. Technology is Natural. Our technological systems depend on the natural world, and the natural world is affected by our technological systems. Neither can be divorced from the other. 
  1. Technology is Cyclical. The systems and devices built in the present carry within them the power dynamics of the past.
  1. Technology Holds Many Futures. We refuse inevitability in favor of multiplicity. Every technological system could have been different. Every technological system can be changed. 

About APGT 

A People’s Guide to Tech (APGT) publishes workshops, zines, books, and educational materials that foster a sense of agency and possibility towards technology. Our work grounds the understanding of emerging technology within our relationships to one another and the planet. 

Each year we publish books, guides and creative materials that unpack a specific technology or system.  Every publication aims to help people understand how and where different technological systems — from artificial intelligence to the internet — impact our lives. Our goal is to meet you where you meet tech so that you and your community are equipped with the information you need.  A People’s Guide to Tech is on your side!  


Check out our website to learn more: peoplesguidetotech.com