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Technics-Out-of-Control as a Theme in Engineering Thought

Technique has been extended geographically so that it covers the whole earth. It is evolving with a rapidity disconcerting not only to the man in the street but to the technician himself. [Pg.41]

Corporation identified the social study of technology as central to their missions. Multinational firms conducted in-house seminars and funded academic projects. Finally, Charles Reich and other academic commentators suggested that the counterculture articulated new philosophies of technology expressed through lifestyle rather than monographs. [Pg.44]

The second pole, which Winner called a theory of technological politics, was a set of pathologies that claimed modernity s evolving systems were foreclosing the possibilities of humane existence. He identified nine recurrent themes of technological politics  [Pg.44]

Size and concentration The system requires massive capital [Pg.44]

Division Labor has become specialized and isolated Complex interaction The system is unintelligible to users and designers Dependence/interdependence Humans lack autonomy and power is shared unequally [Pg.44]

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