"Technology has been generalised to the point of abstraction: it suggests an overarching system that we inhabit."
- Murphie, A. & Potts, J. (2003) - Culture & Technology, Palgrave Macmillan
Technological Determinism
Term coined by Thorstein Veblen in 1920's
Beleif that technology is the agent of social change
Technology moulds behaviour and changes our behaviours and interactions
Society is shaped by it's dominant technologies
Marx is often seen as a technological determinist because of the quote:
"The Windmill gives you society with the feudal lord: the steam mill with the industrial capitalist."
- Marx, K. (2005) - the Poverty of Philosophy, Adamant Media Corporation
Usually refers to the present projected onto the future 'we have no choice but to adopt this technology'
http://www.slideshare.net/Alan_Hook/technological-determinism
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