Tinderbox, Unix, Race, and Post-structuralism

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Thanks for the critique, @eastgate.

If I were interested in reading more about the influence of broader cultural milieux on software design (with a particular focus on software for thinking) and vice versa, are there authors/articles/journals/books I could start with?

Is there some academic discipline that focuses on this type of thing? For my own discipline (Biology), this would be Science and Technology Studies. Some wikipedia sleuthing has led me to articles on the social shaping of technology and the social construction of technology, which seem to be in the right space, but since I’m not a practitioner I don’t know if there are other frameworks people use when thinking about these topics.

I have Rheingold’s Tools for Thought and its references.

Forum posts that highlight the type/scope of resources I’m thinking of, although on slightly different but related topics: