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 I honestly found this reading to be one of the most interesting ones from the entire semester so far. I loved the discussion of how religion and colonization impacted views on what counts as “natural,” and I found their application to technology to be fascinating in their contradictions and limitations. Since I’m an English major, I’ve only ever looked at Romanticism through the lens of literature, but I really liked getting to see its wider effects on attitudes about technology over time. - Noah Rutkowski
+This reading highlights how technological change is never purely about machines but by its social systems that shape and are shaped by those machines. Her analysis shows that domestic technologies, like washing machines or refrigerators, didn't actually reduce women's labor as much as they changed its nature, reflecting deeper cultural expectations about gender and work. This connects to our class theme by illustrating that technology often reinforces existing social structures rather than automatically creating progress or equality.-- Caitlyn Edwards
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