1. How do technological innovations build on one another (using examples)?

2. How are communication and computing technologies interrelated?

3. How was the industrial revolution impacted by technology?

4. Why is the economic impact of technological development important to examine? Give some examples?

5. How did the telegraph impact the economic development of the United States?

6. What was the economic impact of the telegraph?

7. How does the history of technology shape the history of man and society?

8. How has technology reshaped life in the last 15 years?

9. What is the technological imperative?

10. What is social construction of technology and what does it mean today?

11. What is technological determinism? Do you agree or disagree?

16. What is technological somnambulism?

17. What is the technological dilemma, do you agree or disagree with its premise?

18. What is the techno-economic paradigm?

19. Who are the Luddites and what did they want?

21. Who was Marshall McLuhan and why is he so revered?

22. What is meant by "the medium is the message" and the term "global village"?

23. What is hegemony?

24. Give examples of hegemonic structures?

25. Who was Antonio Gramasci and what did he say?