The Whale and the Reactor Response

The idea that hardware and infrastructure has politics is very fascinating to me. The reasoning behind Robert Moses' low-hanging overpasses is disturbing, but opened my eyes to question the construction behind infrastructures. Every building was built in a specific way and in a specific location for a reason, although the reasoning is very rarely thought about. In that sense, it is invisible. Technology can have original purposes which are sinister, such as the machines meant to destruct worker unions. I do think it is important to note that technology is not always added for the purpose of modernization, and that inventions often have unintended consequences. Computers were originally meant for mathematical calculations, and probably were not intended to be used and often abused in ways as they are today. A website such as Kim Dotcom's Megaupload was created based on the principle of sharing, however unintentionally turned into a site to aid criminal activity and pirating content.