SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Microsoft Powerpoint, Marshall Mcluhan, Friedrich Kittler

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Ryan Martin

Document Summary

Particular ages of society tend to be named by the developed technology of the time. This quotation could be said about the web not a days, we feel the same way about new technologies now as we always have. The same could be said about the web, people thought it would completely change the way people communicate with each other and people around them. People change based on what happens in technology, we change the way we walk and more, and interact. Others say technology changes based on society, and that society and the social interest is what shapes technology usually having to do with money and military. There is a mutual shaping of technology and society; it is very hard to determine which shapes what. Computare (latin)- to reckon up; to count one"s fingers; in conjunction with numerare. Calculare- counting of numbers with beads (calculi); calculus; computation; calculation.