Technological and social change are critical to each other

Technologists often ignore or deride social movements, but in fact technological and social change are critical to each other.

Technology enables social change (though it’s certainly not the only enabler). Feminism/suffrage likely wouldn’t have succeeded without the industrial revolution, LGBTQ rights without understanding genetics, etc.

And social context affects what technologies get developed. Would the personal computer / development of UI have happened without 1960s counterculture? Likely not.

Related: Technology is inherently political, Making technology good requires imagination