COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Commodity Fetishism, Planned Obsolescence, Technological Determinism
12 Dec 2017
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Contextualizing technology & a brief history of print media. We use it most often to describe things or objects. Also used to describe process, a way of identifying a problem and trying to figure out a solution. Sticks to labour materials out of the ground for example is also technology. Technology is also biased because it can be a process and an object. When you have a hammer every problem looks like a nail. Tools let us do certain things in certain ways which makes us look at problems in certain ways. Makes it harder for us to consider alternatives. Education technologies such as our classroom where we have a large group of people in front of a giant screen which is how to solve the problem to educate a big number of people. Currently in a period of technological development. Can carry out multiple different tasks from one machine. Technological abilities are converging into one particular place.
