NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Technological Determinism
17 Oct 2018
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Technology>>> <<< society: meritt roe smith: technologies have a social impact but they are also a social product" . Time lag argument: a technology might be created one time period but wont be used later on, no urgent need, we can see this happening in the 12th century. Windmills were created but used about 100 years later: 3. Reshaping that affects all of us today: the basics of the internet were developed in the 1960s designed to be a research tool for scientists working for the us military, they were interested in accessing each other. Bulletin board: a group of users reconfigures and reshape these systems, b. Study the world around you, study the physical world but only doing so to gain a better understanding not doing so for any practical purpose or utilitarian purpose. Learn and fulfill your sense of curiosity: e. the management of new technologies, management and control, who controls the technology in our world today.
