Some text I wrote for students in a course description this semester:
“Technology increasingly feels like something being done •to• us instead of •for• us. What if instead it were something done •by• us?
…
Unimaginable wealth and power are increasingly concentrated behind the screens of our computing devices. That power wants us to be passive, quiescent consumers of technology; that wealth wants us all to count for nothing except the output we produce. To move through this world holding the belief that technology is •ours• to tinker with — something •we• can and should shape for ourselves so that we can thrive — is an act of rebellion.”
…and then:
“Let’s reclaim technology for humans, through the joy of making and doing.“