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2. The Critical Engineer raises awareness that with each technological advance our techno-political literacy is challenged.
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Sometimes, when I'm on the subway, I would wonder if the net knowledge of all passengers on the train could amount to making a smart phone. When you think about it for a couple seconds, you will soon realize that there is nearly no way to make a smart phone with that many people on the same train. But at the same time, we're all constantly staring at our phones (especially on the trains). Often, we're so physically close to pieces of technology, yet have no clue of what goes into them and how they've been engineered or manufactured. I haven't had any political view on this, so I'm not perfectly sure what "techno-political" literacy would mean. But I think it would have some things to do with the privacy- and duopoly-related disputes surrounding the web.
But I do feel uneasy with the current pace that technology is evolving. I enjoy coding and learning more about computers, because it gives me composure, a sense that I'm incrementally gaining more control over my life.