The Caste Bias of Tech Platforms
From Twitter and Instagram to matchmaking apps, tech companies have helped modernize the caste system instead of dismantling it.
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From Twitter and Instagram to matchmaking apps, tech companies have helped modernize the caste system instead of dismantling it.
Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an involved, multistep process. Iron would first be smelted from iron ore in a blast furnace, resulting in high-carbon pig iron. This pig iron was then placed in a special furnace (initially a finery furnace, later a puddling furnace) to remove the carbon and other impurities, resulting in wrought iron. Wrought iron bars would then be placed into clay chests next to sources of carbon and heated for a perio...
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