CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ursula Franklin, Instrumental And Value Rationality, Gattaca
4 Apr 2016
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Primary ideology of technology - posits that virtually all our problems - social, environmental, economic, poliical - are subject to technological soluions. The machine and less material technologies of control (i. e. , administraive systems) are conceived as neutral. They allow for control over nature in a way that enhances human life. Ideology of progress - science and technology fuel economic development. Enlightenment pov for technolog y technology is separate enity, is a tool for us to use. Primary ideology of technology posits that virtually all our problems social, encironmental, economic, poliical are subject to technological soluions. Technologies as a way to solve some of our deepest problems ex we have environmental problems the way to resolve it is through the development of new technologies (ex. If we have a problem with fossil fuels, by a prius) Noion that the humans don"t change technology doesn"t change people.
