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“How Society Shapes Technology”
By Robert Pool
By Sarah Bachman and Katherine Petta
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Who can impact technology?
• One hundred years ago technological development was embraced
• Today we seem to be more skeptical – Special interest groups /
campaigns
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How technology is developed
• Large scale development
• Hierarchical in nature
• Group effort vs. individual
How important is it that we understand the technology we use every day?
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Society’s Pull on Technology
• Popularity (demand)
• Advertising
• Funding
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What is the Nature of Human Knowledge?
• Positivism – accepts as knowledge only that which can be verified by the scientific method (objective / rational)
• Social construction theory – knowledge stems from the interpretations, beliefs and meanings shared by groups of people (subjective)