Can you explain in your own words what Langdon Winner means by the idea that artifacts have politics?

Writing Assignment: This week your reading response can be up to 500 words (give or take 25 words).

Reading:
1. https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf
2.file:///Users/admin/Downloads/OralHistory.NativeAmericansonEnvironment%20(1).pdf

This weeks readings are about understanding the ways that technological innovation can limit critical thinking and regulate society to maintain certain power relations. Remember to push beyond simplistic notions about technology as automatically good or bad, or nave ideas about technology as inherently neutral (it just depends on who is using it for what purpose), to go further toward recognizing the complex relationships that need to be considered when using technology to take back the future. Please use this discussion to start conversations in response to the following questions:

1. Can you explain in your own words what Langdon Winner means by the idea that artifacts have politics?

2. From Prof. Michael Bennett: if large scale technical innovations such as the systems that underpin Uber, Amazon, various forms of online banking or iPhones are powerful forms of arranging human affairs and practically controlling how each of us can move through the world, might it make sense to exercise more societal control over such systems?

3. When do you feel controlled by technology, like it constrains how you express yourself or how you can participate or not?

4. When do you feel technology enables you to use your voice? Give examples…

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