CS213 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Bell System, Steam Engine, Telegraphy
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Or if the tech is an effect, to what other kinds of cause, and other kinds of action, should. Technological determinism: research and development have been assumed as self-generating. Less determinist symptomatic technology: research and development are self-generating but in a more marginal way. There are other causal factors in the social change that tv has brought about. The photograph for community, family and personal life. Beyond determinism: ways people really think about tech fall into 2 major categories: 4 assumptions techs are isolatable objects (discrete things: techs are seen as the cause of change in society (tech determinism, techs are autonomous in origin and action. It is a self-generating force: culture is made up of autonomous elements. The meanings, significance, and role of something such as tech are understood by focusing on the thing itself (to understand tech, you study tech and not law) Effects are inherent (natural) in the tech and that precise effects are inevitable: symptomatic causality.
