Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - American Exceptionalism, Bioelectronics, Foxconn
15 Oct 2012
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How is technological innovation framed as progress . One side of the binary is always favored, rendered positive (civilized) and the other (uncivilized) is unseen, invisible. Appeals to humankind tech. progress is rendered as a natural fact, Evolution , and thus applies to humankind writ large technology is (the only form) of progress. That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously (98) . As humankind explores this new electronic frontier of knowledge, it must confront again the most profound questions of how to organize itself for the common good. The meaning of freedom, structures of self-government, definition of property, nature of competition, conditions for cooperation, sense of community and nature of progress will each be redefined for the. Knowledge age just as they were redefined for a new age of industry some.
