Political Technologies

It is interesting to think that even hundreds of years ago, developers and engineers were looking for ways in which technology go benefit society and especially even politics. Although the ideas of Robert Moses were small minded and prejudice, they were a new way to look at the power of technologies. With the simple notion to lower over passes and bridges he was able to almost segregate a portion of land. 

This ability is almost scary to think about. Are our technologies being used for the right reason? If people are going to be using them in such a negative manner, should they be kept around? Thankfully, with the progression of society and politics many of Moses’ structures were replace with new, higher bridges. This proves that technologies themselves do not have any intended politics, it is the creator behind them that is using them for their own political tendencies. They are the ones that have the influence over how the technologies over society. We give power to these technologies and it is up to us how we use them for our intended politics.

In no way do I think that technologies will ever have power over us. They do not have a mind of their own and cannot determine the outcome of their use. Further in the reading, even the development of the atom bomb. It was originally create for political use and even thought the outcome of detonation is disastrous, society chose to create the lethal weapon. 

There will always be an element of politics behind everything we create. However is up to society oh they intend to use the technology and give it political significance. With time politics will change and so will technologies which allows our society to grow and develop new ideas and technologies.