SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Web 2.0, Crowdsourcing, Marshall Mcluhan
22 Sep 2014
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Outline 1) technological revolutions 2) a brief history of the internet 3) the. Predications ahead it is impossible to transmit speech electrically. Everything that can be invented has been invented - 1889. No reason anyone would want a computer in their home - 1977. How did we get to the position where everyone has a computer in their home. Cant predict what people want in the future. Technological revolutions exercizing all worst of influences social, moral and political; precipitating upon us novel problems cleansed by the antiseptic of common understanding - on radio. Voices will have a voice - politics, democracy accessible. Technology is the driving force of society. Accompanies social interest and change > technology is the outcome of societys needs. Both are wrong - it is a mutual shaping process, it is a mixture of technical and social change depending what youre looking for. Computers are re-conceptualized as communication devices rather than calculating machines.
