Key Quote from chapter.

“The hideous mantra ‘move fast and break things’ has become the governing ideology of a technological oligarchy that remains largely white, male, overconfident, and insulated from the consequences of its own creations. Most people have little control over the systems these actors impose on society, and marginalized communities are too often left to absorb the damage. Gender, Power, and Emergent Technology explains why this pattern must be reversed: those most affected by a system should have real authority in governing it. Every chapter offers not only a theoretical critique of what is wrong with modern technologies, but practical recommendations for how institutions can make care, accountability, and repair part of their design. I hope it will be read widely.”

—Alberto Cairo,

Knight Chair in Infographics and Data Visualization, University of Miami; author of The Art of Insight

This collection is for readers who understand that technology is never only technical.

Across knowledge systems, health care, youth culture, public institutions, finance, and local governance, the contributors show how emerging technologies redistribute power, labor, care, and accountability—and how people closest to the consequences work to make harm visible before systems learn how to count it.

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You do not need to be a technologist to enter this book.

You need to recognize what happens when institutions adopt systems before they have named the human work required to govern them.

Christine Haskell, Ph.D.
Managing Editor & contributing author