Do Artifacts Have Politics?

Summary

Argues that technologies can embody political arrangements, either by design (the low Long Island overpasses example, now disputed) or because some technologies inherently require certain social structures.

Why it’s useful here

A short, citable foundation for the claim that architecture choices (centralized vs. federated) are governance choices.

Key ideas

• Technologies as forms of order
• Inherently political technologies vs. politically designed ones

Related

• franklin-1990-real-world-of-technology.md