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Infrastructure and Inequality

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Frontier Isn't on the Cutting Edge

Lee: It's almost a truism in the field of science and technology studies that we tend to kind of fetishize technological solutions to problems right. But these technologies are being put in social systems that have all these issues around power and inequality and such. Without really without addressing those social problems you're not really like you're just not touching it right, he says.

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