POL 507 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Turing Test, Wearable Computer, Transhumanism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 507
• Professor: Matthew Flisfeder

Document Summary

Technology provides a means for us, its users to get things done. As long as technology works smoothly, it is simply part of our daily life, of how society. When technology fails, disasters can follow (ex. How social and the technological interact, is referred to as the socio-technical ought to function damage prespective. We will review five different definitions, from the narrowest to the broadest, which view technology as (1) material substance, (2) knowledge, (3) practise, (4) technique and (5) society. It sees technology as a passive object, a tool created by humans to be used under our control: by examining technology as only material substance, the complex interplay of technology and society is disregarded. It limit our understanding of technology and doesn"t examine social change. This view has been largely discredited and a number of alternative. It doesn"t consider that the knowledge required to create, utilize and tranforms objects is a different entity than the object itself.