Why technical skill was not the emancipatory solution

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Question 1. Janet Abbate explores the view in his article "Code Switch: Alternative Visions of Computer Expertise as Empowerment from the 1960s to 2010s" that technical skill - the ability to work in the electronics industry, the ability to code and program, would hold liberatory potential, for Black communities and Indigenous communities especially. Why was technical skill seen as liberatory? What did it promise?

Question 2. Lisa Nakamura's article "Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture" also explore why technical skill was not the emancipatory solution to social inequity and injustice that many hoped. Why not? What were some of the reasons, forces, mechanisms?

Question 3. Kelcey Gibbons proposes in "Inventing the Black Computer Professional that when people said "computing would make us free, "there were many different definitions of freedom at stake. Looking at the readings this week, what definitions of freedom can you identify? Is some people's freedom predicated on the control of others?

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