https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20024652.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3A9dac78ec2d35245e7d3691c68124af0e&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1

My belief that we ought to attend more closely to technical objects themselves is not to say that we can ignore the contexts in which those objects are situated.

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In my best estimation, however, the social consequences of building renewable energy systems will surely depend on the specific configurations of both hardware and the social institutions created to bring that energy to us. It may be that we will find ways to turn this silk purse into a sow's ear.

To understand which technologies and which contexts are important to us, and why, is an enterprise that must involve both the study of specific technical systems and their history as well as a thorough grasp of the concepts and controversies of political theory.

In our times people are often willing to make drastic changes in the way they live to accord with technological innovation at the same time they would resist similar kinds of changes justified on political grounds. If for no other reason than that, it is important for us to achieve a clearer view of these matters than has been our habit so far.

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Technology as an artefact vs technology as having a long socioeconomic history and relations which make it a political subject.