CS213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Langdon Winner, Technological Determinism, P53
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Why should we not frame our talk about technology in terms of progress: progress is ideological, no natural process for technology. How does our conception of convenience ensure dissatisfaction and inconvenience: as soon as were satisfied we are dissatisfied, convenience= overcoming limits, then there will always be inconvenience. What do slack and wise mean by a network of connections: we (cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:396)edu(cid:272)e te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ologies to thi(cid:374)gs. Iphone is a bundle of technologies: when technology is created, we have an idea of where and when it would be used. If you have a fridge then you assume that one has a car, able to put food in trunk and then bring it home to fill up the fridge. Received view (do not speak about in micro themes: technological progress. Determinism: causality, something causes (or determines) the action of something else, the attribution of casual power is what permits the distribution of blame or praise.
