First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
Technologies shape and are shaped by society. They are neither the problem nor the solution.
And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle al... See more
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Historians of technology often quote Kranzberg’s First Law (formulated by Melvin Kranzberg in a seminal essay in 1986): ‘Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.’