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Can tech...
In season 1 of our podcast, shado-lite, co-hosts Zoe and Larissa kept coming back to how big tech has entrenched systems of inequality and exploitation.
In a bid to feel less cynical about technology, this column will see Zoe exploring the technologies that might help us bring about a better world.
How can we embrace technology as a tool to realise justice? Who is designing tech differently? Where are the experiments which centre care, justice, regeneration in technology design and construction? And how can we, normal people who need every day tech to function in modern society, negotiate a relationship less dependent on systems of exploitation and extraction?