Racist Technology

Color Film Was Built For White People -- Vox, 2015, 4:39 -- https://youtu.be/d16LNHIEJzs

Despite the popular view that technological advancement will one day solve all of our social problems, here we can clearly see that technology reflects and perpetuates inequalities in a society. The focus of this clip is on color film but it concludes with how our cultural bias for lighter skin is embedded in modern facial recognition technology.