President Obama on Tuesday signed a new cybersecurity executive order, allowing the government to share more information it has on so-called national “cyber threats” with private companies, namely infrastructure providers.

Technology is never a neutral tool. It is rather a socio-cultural dimension, always political in the sense of representing choices – consciously made or not. And choices are not made consciously, by the way, when technology is thought of as neutral and non-political.

A staggering manufacturing system in China has made it possible for Apple and other companies to make devices almost as quickly as they can be dreamed up, but for workers, it can be dangerous.