sasha1 wrote
"On `shapers vs. mechs`: these describe technologies, or methods,
while the social separation usually (always) happens along goals and
values; I can not think of an example where these were split along the
same lines."
As I recall Sterling wrote of the shapers distrust of the purely mechanical or cybernetic methods, citing a loss of "true creative thinking" invoking Godel type arguments as to the limitations of the machines. Of course the mechs dismissed these arguments as archaic superstition !
See Bruce Sterlings wonderful collection "Crystal Express"