NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wiebe Bijker, Trevor Pinch, Safety Bicycle
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Does technology drive history: technological determinism is usually based on the materials that form the environment which shape the rational decisions made, technologies never behave the way they are originally intended or designed for by their producers. Ex: a watch was made to tell time but it can also be used to make pro ts, be attractive etc: social construction of technology (scot), work done by trevor pinch and wiebe. Bijker (1987) expanded points on the development of technology: their main example was about the development of the safety bicycle, a standard bicycle is safe, stable ef cient and fast.
