Johannes Grenzfurthner Quote

The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural—and last but not least—political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.

Interview with Furtherfield