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Technological determinism

The belief that technology develops on its own inevitable trajectory, that humans are passengers rather than drivers—a seductive idea because it absolves us of responsibility for what we build. The hard truth is that the specific technologies that exist exist because someone chose to build them that way, not because it was the only possible future.

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