L15

Question 1

Person:
Against Critics of Technology
Technological Determinism
Engineers are independent from external factors
“Technological progress is the true measure of human development”
“The Existential Pleasures of Engineering”

Answer 1

Samuel Florman

Question 2

Person:
Tech is evolving and will become self-creating
Biological Progression
“Nature of technology”

Answer 2

W. Brian Arthur

Question 3

Person:
Promoted the singularity
computer/AI/tech should be autonomous for people
“The singularity is near”

Answer 3

Ray Kurzweil

Question 4

Person:
Believed that tech will one day be independent of humans
Biological determinism

Answer 4

Lewis Manford

Question 5

People who opposed factory system profits, forced into machinery with low income.

Answer 5

Luddites

Question 6

Believed that technological systems are hidden and we can’t really see them.
Unable to see what tech is doing to us

Answer 6

Jacques Ellul

Question 7

Gave 3 main points on technology,

1. Trade off
2. Always will have impacts and create new societies based on it
3. We are completely obedient to it

Answer 7

Niel Postman

Question 8

“To accept unchallenged from science the answers to such questions as how to feel, live, or behave is ________”

Answer 8

scientism

Question 9

Scientism led to ________, no choice whether to use tech or not

Answer 9

technopoly