Technology Isn’t Neutral. It’s Cultural.

We are constantly told technology is neutral.

That algorithms are objective.

That design is “just technical.”

But technology doesn’t appear from nowhere.

It is built by people, shaped by culture, and assembled through decisions, decisions that increasingly determine who gets a job, who gets a mortgage, and who receives medical care.

In this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar, Dr Tabish Zaman is joined by Glenn Block (Founder & CEO, ProdSense) to unpack what the tech industry often refuses to name:

Neutrality is not the absence of bias.

It is often the protection of privilege.

This is not a conversation about hype.

It is a conversation about responsibility and what happens when innovation scales faster than care.

Together, they explore:

• Why “neutral technology” is a dangerous myth

• How culture shapes design decisions long before launch

• What product equity means in practice, not as a slogan

• Why exclusion is often designed in, not discovered later

• Who is missing from the rooms where products are imagined

• How startup culture rewards speed, not accountability

• Why accessibility and inclusion cannot be retrofitted after harm

• And what responsible innovation should demand from entrepreneurs, designers, and institutions

🎙 “The bias isn’t in the zeros and ones it’s in how we assemble them.”

This episode is a challenge to founders, innovators, and anyone building systems that touch other people’s lives. Because if technology reflects our culture, we have to ask:

what kind of world are we building and for whom?