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'''Technological stratification''' is the process by which access to and control over technology becomes distributed along existing social hierarchies of class, race, gender, and geography. Unlike the [[Digital divide|digital divide]], which is often framed as a binary gap, stratification describes a continuous gradient of differential access, skills, and outcomes. It is a structural feature of [[Complex Systems|complex systems]] in which [[Information Asymmetry|information asymmetry]] and [[Platform Capitalism|platform capitalism]] reinforce one another, producing [[Technological Hegemony|technological hegemony]] that concentrates the power to shape innovation in the hands of a few.

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