When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Tesla bot, it evoked a racist phenomenon dating back to the 18th century.
Nelson was right; this was fiction. Techno-prophets of the 20th century envisioned a future free of bodies, and especially bodies that groan under the weight of social baggage—female bodies, Black bodies. But it wasn't to be. Not only, as Nelson pointed out, would our “burdensome social identities” follow us online, but a new digital ruling class would frame those identities as obsolete among the “raceless”—male and white—avatars that set out to dominate the internet.
His team's research brings home Nelson's central contentions. The first is that our social identities have not evaporated in digital space; they've been crystallized for us. The second is that there has always been a delta between, as Jones-Imhotep puts it in an email, “how Black people understood and defined themselves in relation to technology vs. how those same technologies were deployed to define Black people externally .
“The androids' surface appearance portrayed Black people as naive and non-technological—part of the mythology that portrays technology as opposed to blackness,” Jones-Imhotep says. “But their internal technologies—steam, clockwork, electricity—were part of an incredibly rich technological life of Black New York.
Musk, who called the bot Tesla's “most important product” in January, emphasizes that it is designed to do “dangerous, repetitive, and boring” tasks, notably deadlifting, which Bloomberg, in an article about the bot, identified as “bending over to pick something up.
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