This is a talk on automation, power, justice and labor in the tech industry.

I want to look at some ways the Web is changing, and how our work is changing alongside it. I want to talk about web design as an agent of power, and to discuss its potential to do harm. I want to suggest that web design has, as a practice, become industrialized, and I want to look at how that will change the nature of our work in the months and years to come. I want to talk about how the web has always excelled at creating new kinds of work, before rendering that work—and its workers—invisible.

And then I want to talk a little bit about hope.