We are constantly told that technology is neutral.That platforms are just tools.That design decisions are technical — not cultural or political.But the outcomes tell a different story.Exclusion.Inequality.Invisible users forced to adapt to systems never built with them in mind.In this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar, Dr Tabish Zaman is joined by Glenn Block, Founder and CEO of ProdSense, to examine a side of technology we rarely confront: the cultural assumptions and power dynamics embedded into products long before they reach our lives.This is not a conversation about innovation hype.It is a conversation about responsibility.About how culture shapes design.How design shapes outcomes.And how technology quietly decides who is seen, who is excluded, and who is expected to adapt.Together, they explore why “neutral technology” is a dangerous myth, how exclusion is often designed in rather than accidental, who is missing from the rooms where technology is imagined, and why accessibility and inclusion cannot be retrofitted after harm has already occurred.🎙 “Technology doesn’t just reflect our culture — it enforces it.”This episode reframes technology not as innovation alone, but as culture made operational.A conversation about design as power.About accountability in systems that prioritise speed over care.And about what it says about us when our tools inherit our blind spots.

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