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Part of the aim of this book is to help people think about technology in the context of situations currently faced. Multiple overlapping ecological crises, increasingly powerful authoritarian states and corporations, and the vast gulfs in wealth and power that exist between and within societies. As we write the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are reverberating around the world. What role did technology play in bringing these situations about, and what role might it play in changing them? 95
