NPF 504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fuzhou, Technological Determinism, Crystal Computing
14 Dec 2015
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Technological innovations are led from a social context or need. Social, economic and political factors must all be accounted for in the development of technologies. Sst have a role in shaping new developments. How it is situated in a time and place. Sst has been forced to go beyond a simplistic forms of social determinism, which like technological determinism, see technology as reflecting a single rationality predetermined logic, then the innovation is a garden of forking paths. If technology does not emerge from the unfolding of a. See the different ways that technology could have gone. One that ran on natural gas and the other that went on electricity. It determines what society wants at that moment and the strength of the society at that time. Something like a tablet, the different brands, but some are labelled as the dominant ones. Sst doesn"t court for the hegemony and technology. How technology is a forum that constantly changes.
