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Twentieth-century sociology & political science posited two preeminent counterfactuals to agency. These entities were social structure & instrumental reason, including the latter's attendant technologies. An unusual case study is considered where agency, structure, & technology interact in unpredictable forms only partially amenable to the received wisdom of the social sciences. A resolute assertion of individual & collective agency underpinned an ambitious federal public policy initiative, undertaken in part to address two forms of structural disadvantage. In the face of difficulties then encountered, computers came to be treated as the enabling instrument. Agency, structure, & technology each seemed autonomous forces, yet their trajectories have proven partially interdependent & contingent. 131 References. Adapted from the source document.