As an anthropologist, I have worked with people in both developing new technologies and managing existing ones. Based on this experience, I suggest that although anthropologically informed perspectives can contribute to technology development—from providing insights on particular cases to raising broader questions about a product's impact on society—the route to doing so is sometimes indirect. In this endeavor, anthropology matters by engaging not just the finished product, when critique is so easily possible, but the process of development, as the work is yet underway. Such engagement is enabled by how people leverage their commitments, stances, and manner of being there along the way and over time. To better enable the impact of anthropology in this work, anthropologists would be well served by engaging more with these kinds of applied questions as a part of their training and knowledge production.

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将社会转化为复杂的技术开发

作为一名人类学家，我与人们一起开发新技术和管理现有技术。基于这一经验，我认为，尽管人类学视角有助于技术发展——从提供对特定案例的见解到提出有关产品对社会影响的更广泛问题——但这样做的途径有时是间接的。在这一努力中，人类学的重要性不仅在于成品（批评很容易实现），还在于发展过程（因为工作仍在进行中）。这种参与是通过人们如何利用他们的承诺、立场和方式来实现的。为了更好地发挥人类学在这项工作中的影响，人类学家通过更多地参与这些类型的应用问题作为他们的培训和知识生产的一部分，将会得到很好的帮助。