About Edward Ongweso Jr
Hello, I’m Edward Ongweso Jr—I’m an independent writer, researcher, tech critic, and evangelical Luddite.
Here at The Tech Bubble I mainly write about the political and economic conditions that shape how we finance, develop, and deploy technology.
I have an ongoing series of essays on artificial intelligence that look at its relationship to resurgent eugenicist ideologies, its historical origins as a tool for social control and labor discipline, and the similarity of AI hype to the Medieval Church’s indulgence economy.
Some of my more popular essays have been on Las Vegas’s annual Consumer Electronic Showcase, Dune’s Butlerian Jihad, AI skeptics and boosters, ride-hailing apps, and ritual sacrifice in the 21st century.
I’ve written about the Silicon Valley Bank collapse for Slate, the historic role of water and tech in Israel’s occupation of Palestine for Logic(s), Silicon Valley’s super-app dream for WIRED, Silicon Valley’s history and future for The Nation, AI’s financialization for The Boston Review, public finance for Dissent, Uber and Lyft’s business models for The Guardian, and how crypto & defense tech profited from both the Biden and Trump administrations for Fast Company. I’ve also profiled Boots Riley for Broken Pencil, reviewed some books for The Baffler and The New Republic, and wrote my first science-fiction story for Logic(s).