The History—and Disturbing Resurrection—of Black Androids
When Elon Musk unveiled his idea for the Tesla bot, it evoked a racist phenomenon dating back to the 18th century
TWENTY YEARS AGO, dotcom evangelists wouldn't shut up about the web as a land of milk and honey, an egalitarian Eden. But their utopianism hit a reckoning in 2002: “Future Texts,” Alondra Nelson's watershed essay about race and technology.
“That race (and gender) distinctions would be eliminated with technology,” wr…
