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This sounds like the usual conflation of "technology" and "social movements adjacent to technology."

Digital computers are technology, smartphones are a social movement.

The internet is technology, Reddit is a social thing.

GPS (the system that gives you a fix using satellites) is technology, everyone relying on turn by turn navigation is a social movement.

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Whatever your definition of “social movement” is (which appears at the very least, quite peculiar), you seem to be implying those two things are well defined, unrelated, things, and they're not.

You can make up whatever categories you feel are useful (the author here chooses to include values as part of technology, by example), but don't forget that categories tend to make people overestimate the difference between things.

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