CMN 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Technological Determinism, Smoke Signal, Claude Shannon
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Information couldn"t travel farther than the distance walked in 1 day. 1860: ponies delivered the news of lincoln"s election. West coast did not know who was president until. Technological capacities to store, process, and communicate information are reaching unimaginable capacities. After 2000, much of the world"s information was stored digitally instead of by analog. Abacus 1st way to compute information with technological help. Storage + communication + computation converging onto the bit, a digital format. (claude. Weekly hours online in u. s has increased 1 hr/year. 60% of time is spent interacting with technology media. Ict is not the most important thing, but it enables an easier and more stable way to fulfill our basic needs. Technology is a tool to obtain objects/services, enhance education, spread ideas and many more. Technology has different outcomes that are socially constructed. We shape our tools and our tools shape us. We need to ensure technology is used for the benefit of society.
