The Whale and the Reactor, by Langdon Winner

The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (1986)

Another seminal text in society and technology. It suggests that technology intrinsically carried values long before we had to deal with AI alignment. Together with Kranzberg it is the philosophical foundation of the socio-technical contract as I use the term.

Read it asking: Winner argues that some technologies are inherently political regardless of who operates them. Is there anything that is beyond the political?