knutmelvaer.no/blog/2020/04/who-are-the-non-technicals
My “non-technical” liberal arts education would have set me up to interpret these statements to be about Luddites: protesters who denounce technology, worried that we will become slaves to the machines. However, it’s rarely people who are prone to break your laptop in protest that’s subject to the category of “non-technical.” More often than not, it’s people that have the same expensive phone and laptop that you have. People who use e-mail, word processors, apps for all sorts of things, spreadsheets, robot vacuums, cars, and whatever back office system they have to endure at their work place. Yeah, you probably see where I’m going with this. I don’t think the term “non-technical” is particularly helpful: Not as a self-description, not as a persona, and not as something we use to characterize other people. In fact, to label people as “non-technical” is probably reinforcing stereotypes and implicit ideas of power. On the flip side of this label, we are giving a particular agency to the p
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