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ISTANBUL In his seminal essay, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” (1980), Langdon Winner discusses the bridges over the parkways in Long Island, New York. Winner notes that these overpasses were consciously designed to be very low-hanging to keep off the 12-foot-tall public buses that the poor and black people used back then. Hence, the upper and middle white class could enjoy the roads, parks, and bridges without having to mix with low-income classes and racial minorities. Several similar examples exist in the history of technology. Unfortunately, such patterns reveal that technology can...