Book Reviews empowerment, what it can and cannot hope to achieve in the bid for equity. It must be mindful of its gender, race, and ethnicity-bound past. Hacker-developed solutions in open technology spaces are almost bound to fail in the pursuit of changing culture, social norms, and inequities. " Unequal participation in tech " is not " a tech problem with a tech solution " but a social problem. Building a 18 more democratic technology might be possible, but the democratic goals of diversity cannot be limited to technology alone. Jenna P. Carpenter is the Founding Dean and a Professor of Engineering with Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC. Her e-mail address is carpenter@ campbell.edu. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine