NATS 1775 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1775
• Professor: Vera Pavri

Document Summary

Technological determinism is a viewpoint that looks technology as the key cause of social and organizational change. Technology seen as an independent thing that changes and shapes society and it is something that invented to have life of its own. Importance of this idea that humans have no control over technology once has been discovered. Technology is the cause of social, political, economic, and cultural change and technology is the driving force of history that can have a new impact on societies. Determinism suggests that technology determines and shapes society. Simplicity is that technologies provide us a simple answer to understand changes around us and problem is that talks about one side and new technologies causes unemployment: problems with determinism. Ideas of technological determinism are most general in popular discourse. Problem is that they created sexual revolution because society wanted to: necessity is the mother of invention (2nd theory)