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The Bomb, the Pill, and the Shot

10 December 201510 December 2015 by Ellak-Editor

A few days ago, Tom Steinberg—the founder and former director of mySociety—wrote a fascinating piece on power that was meant for people developing civic technology. In a post on Medium, Tom clearly describes the nature of power as it relates to technology and implored civic technologists to think more directly about how shifts in power … Read more

The Pill versus the Bomb: What Digital Technologists Need to Know About Power

10 December 2015 by Ellak-Editor

People who work in digital technologies don’t tend to talk a lot about power, except perhaps in relation to our ever-depleting smartphones. But if your goal in deploying modern technologies is even partly to make the world a better place, rather than solely increase the size of your Exit, sooner or later you’ll need to … Read more