CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Technological Determinism, Social Change, Cultural Determinism
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Pacey reading - relationship between technology and our use of it - what we"re doing to make it a tool that serves our needs. Technology and its uses - the same technology fits into people"s lives differently. Look at the web of human activities surrounding the machine . What needs to be built to support it. If it"s to be of any use, [technology] must fit into a pattern of activity which belongs to a particular lifestyle and set of values . Yes, there needs to be a goal to progress towards. Gathering workers in one place and watching over them. Pacey says the biggest change is the development and new way of working. All these views are variants of an attitude often referred to as technological determinism, which presents technological advance as a process of steady development dragging human society along in train. Tool = technology + human usage -> a goal.
