Modern Technologies and you Flashcards
What did Samuel florman right? what did this argue?
“existential pleasures of engineering”
- argues that engineering is independent of external factors. internal drive
what is technological determinism? where was this argued for?
tech is a joy and life is better with more tech. From Samuel florman
What did lewis mumford write?
- the myth of the machine
- argued that unlimted tech progress will never eliminate humanity
- man made machine, machine cant take over
Why were luddites hateful of machines?
they were opposing social changes that came with new tech. factory life
what happened to the luddites in 1812
200 went to street to protest, 14000 troops sent to deal with them and slaughtered them
what new law was passed as a result of the luddites?
destruction of machines was punishable by death
- firt time inhistory that machines were treated like humans by law
who was Jacques Ellul? what did he write?
wrote the technological society
- we are controlled by tech
- tech used for politicale/economic ends
- coined sleepers
- allegory of a cave
who was neil postman and what did he write? what were his three main points?
A historian of technology
wrote “technolopoly”
- tech is a trade off
2 tech always has an impact (transforms society) - we are obedient to tech
