"Technology is never a neutral, value-free tool with ‘good’ or ‘bad’ effects. Its design imperatives..."

“Technology is never a neutral, value-free tool with ‘good’ or ‘bad’ effects. Its design imperatives emerge from, as much as transform, our lives. When it does transform our lives, it usually rearranges details, important details sometimes, but rarely alters our way of life. Simply put, technologies are crystallisations of society, they are frozen social relations.”

- Judy Wajcman, Fast-World Values

from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/139133356777