ECN 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4, 7: Testtube, Fetal Surgery, Louise Brown
14 Mar 2017
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Pol507- social networks, power and inequality (chapter 1,2,3,4,7) Marxist tradition (1850: focused on inequality, which lead to interest of how machines affect labor, how social ethical and technological come together and influence one another. Jacques ellul"s (1964: defined technique as a standardized means for attaining a pre- determined goal in society, technology imposes efficient ordering on society at the expense of other considerations, technology as society. Jean baudrillard (cid:498)technology becomes the world(cid:499: argues that technology and society become one entity. Herbert marcuse: believed that technologies brought about new standards as well as cultural and social change, problem: they fuse technology and society into one, impossible to study how they are linked. Combined definition: (cid:498)technology is an assemble of material objects embodying purposes(cid:499) and reflecting societal elements such as knowledge, norms and attitudes that have been shaped and structured to serve social, political, cultural and existential. Attempt to develop technologies that can imitate the human mind and or body.
