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Have been rereading Ursula Franklin's "The Real World of Technology". Some thoughts on her notion of prescriptive technologies futuresoflanguage.org/posts/librar...

futuresoflanguage.orgConsequences of prescriptive technologyFranklin's notion of prescriptive technology draws attention to how some technologies instill a culture of compliance, where making and doing are not holistic activities but repetitive smaller steps. ...

10/10/26, 8:37 am1 repost5 likes

Mark Dingemanse

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> While […] prescriptive technologies are often exceedingly effective and efficient, they come with an enormous social mortgage. > […] that we live in a culture of compliance, that we are ever more conditioned to accept orthodoxy as normal, and to accept that there is only one way of doing “it”.