This week’s episode examines prejudice in technological development. Marie Hicks discusses her book “Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing.” Tom Mullaney talks about “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” which examines the development of a modern, nonalphabetic information infrastructure.

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