Slide 19 · the tool is never neutral

Every design choice ships a value.

Anthony Joseph — Isiléyu — said his ancestors didn’t have chainsaws, but they would’ve used them if they were there. The creative impulse is continuous. The tools change. The people who pick them up are in the same lineage.

The tool is never neutral. But neither are we.

Each card pairs a real tool with the specific decision its makers made and the real-world consequence that decision produced. Not bias. Not magic. A choice.