Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and Co-Founder of FemLab. She’s also the author of the award-winning book “The Next Billion Users” from Harvard Press, and her new book “From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” will be released in this fall by MIT Press.
Payal joins Robb and Josh for a frank and eye-opening exploration of technology and innovation in the Global South. The conversation examines the reasons why pessimism is a luxury of the privileged, how generalizations can fail designers, and the problematic relationship between innovation and excess. Don’t miss another insightful episode of Invisible Machines.
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