Comments on: How Technological Design Incorporates Social Values https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-technological-design-incorporates-social-values/2013/11/13 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Jerome Ravetz https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-technological-design-incorporates-social-values/2013/11/13/comment-page-1#comment-661356 Sun, 13 Apr 2014 12:45:40 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=34131#comment-661356 Here’s a lovely example of the social justice issues raised by technology design, taken from Mark Twain’s account of a steamboat boiler accident in ‘Huckleberry Finn’. Coming into a farm, Huck found himself greeted by this lady, who had been expecting someone named Tom. To explain why he was late, he invented an incident.

Now I struck an idea, and fetched it out:

“It warn’t the grounding — that didn’t keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head.”

“Good gracious! anybody hurt?”

“No’m. Killed a nigger.”

“Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lally Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards. He was a Baptist.

(http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/mtwain/bl-mtwain-huck-32.htm)

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