Technologies in the age of Corporations and Regulation (Nye)

1. How can you explain the advent of this technology in a culturally deterministic fashion?

2. How can you explain the advent of this technology in a technologically deterministic fashion?

3. Why might someone say this technology was one of the greatest developments in human history?

4. Why might someone say this technology was one of the worst developments in human history?

 

For each of these, keep in mind the social and cultural drivers of their development and uptake. Also keep in mind how the nature of the medium in turn shaped society, and how that technology looked for people while it was new, as well as historians and sociologists looking back on it today.

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