Soy Cámara: Gender and Technology (2016)

Neither history nor technology are innocuous tools. As the sociologist Judy Wajcman indicates, technologies reflect the values and experiences of the people who design them. The same could be said of history to understand the lack of presence of women and people from developing countries, both in the field of science and technology and in new spaces of communication such as Wikipedia or even Google. The new technologies are designed by young and white men, and Silicon Valley is a quarry of these programmers and technological designers, many of whom consider themselves "Randian heroes" in honor of the liberal and individualistic theories of Ayn Rand. What consequences stem from this techno-sociological dilemma?