The Culture of Technology

The Culture of Technology

• Is tech culturally neutral?
• Examine the activities around the machines p. 3

Tech also involves patterns of organization and empirical values p. 4

Specialized training restrcits people's approach to problems. p. 10

Computers change power relationships p. 23

Org. change is often more powerful p. 23

'Machine mysticism' p. 24

Man adapts himself to, or is moulded by, new things p. 24

“It is a decision between different attitudes of mind” (p. 29)

"... we should not picture the last two centuries of technological progress as a smooth, continuous advance but more as a succession of waves of innovation.” p. 31

When an agricultural task is mechanized, power often moves from women to men.
p. 100

Values in tech practice (in descending order):
- virtuosity
- economics
- valuing the work of women