PHILOS 1D03 Chapter : Technology4.docx
6 Dec 2013
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It is within our culture: velocipede (boneshaker) (1860s, penny-farthing (1870s, safety bike (1880s) Why did the safety bike become the dominant paradigm: skolimowski: it was the more technically efficient, sclove: human beings made a choice about what a bike should be. Technological impacts political issues: we ought to deliberate about it. In the modern technological society we are confronted by two sets of values: social: freedom, equality, justice, community, etc, technological: efficiency, innovation, competitiveness, productivity, etc. These sets of values are often incompatible. We need to decide which set of values ought to dominate when they conflict: for winner. Many technological artifacts/systems have become virtual members of our society: they help create regimes in which we operate, to what extent do people in these regimes enjoy freedom, equality, justice, etc. Non-linguistic political ideas which are present in material objects: they tell us who we are, where we are, power is centralized (corporate boardroom)
