Aral Balkan
Aral is a cyborg rights activist, designer, and developer. He's one-third of Indie, a tiny not-for-profit working for social justice in the digital age.
Aral is a designer and programmer who has been making things with computers for the past 35 years. He’s 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, he presents his latest thinking on how we can create alternatives to surveillance capitalism that cannot be co-opted. His suggestion is simple: think small.
Photo credit: Christina von Poser