CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Langdon Winner, Hyperbole, Cultural Lag
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Technology and its uses: you and your grandma use the same technology in different ways. Pacey: the technology "culturally neutral", look at "the web of human activities" surrounding the machine" Its image: what supplies it needs, what skills it needs, what needs to be built to support it. "if it"s to be any use, [technology] must fit into a pattern of activity which belongs to a particular lifestyle and set of values" Pacey: on progress: you need to have a goal for there to be progress, progress also depends on what goals there are. Industrial revolution: social and organizational change, gathering workers in one place and watching over them. "all these views are variants of an attitude often referred to as technological advance as a. "in a similar way it is possible to turn the conventional history of almost any invention on process of steady development dragging human society along in train.
