Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Langdon Winner, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Public Participation
4 Mar 2020
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To accommodate the rough motion of these harvesters, agricultural research bred new varieties of tomatoes [the hard tomato], which, are hardier, sturdier and less tasty than those previously grown. The harvesters replaced the system of handpicking in which crews of farm workers would pass through the eld three or four times, [picking] ripe tomatoes and saving immature fruit for later harvest. - langdon winner, do. Tomato production and its relationship to machine"s. The use of mechanical harvestation and the modi cation of plants. The number of tomato growers declined from approximately 4,000 in the early. Only the largest farms can a ord this technology - only the largest farms can lower production cost and maximize e ciency and can stay competitive. Technological politics because radically changes pro les of farms - rich, powerful agricultural concerns that control everything - there is no room for anybody else: small farms get screwed, consumers get screwed.
