The Moral Economy Of Technology | Kieran Healey | 28th June 2016

Most critics of technology are not nearly critical enough. They assume that the technology will work. They take the manufacturer’s side, in effect, and disagree only about the results. Yet we know from personal experience that things often break down. Caveat emptor. “We may face some version of Oscar Wilde’s dilemma, where the only thing worse than the moral economy of technology working as advertised is the moral economy of it not working as advertised”