Dissecting the quick fix: Analysing tech-solutionist solutions
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Argues that technical fixes often dodge political choices and proposes a practical W-question framework (what, where, when, why, who, how) that focuses on the neglected why and who. Gives concrete counterexamples — air conditioning for riots, surveillance for shootings, Mars as climate escape — and details how edtech pipelines extract, store and repurpose private learning data. Recommends pairing dataset and model documentation like Model Cards for Model Reporting and Data Sheets for Datasets with accountability over the public vs private axis to reveal who benefits and who is constrained.
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