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Revolution a dramatic and wide-reaching
change in conditions, attitudes, or operation (English Oxford Dictionary)
Castells’ (1996) provides an analysis of the impact of new technologies on
economy and society
From ‘Material’ culture
‘Information Society’ “inducing a pattern of discontinuity in the material basis of economy,
society and culture”
Comparison between the information technology revolution and the
industrial revolution
Converging technologies
MicroelectronicsComputing
TelecommunicationsOptoelectronics
Genetic engineering
Characterized by their “pervasiveness”
- information technology is as important to this revolution as new sources of
energy were to the last ones
The internet of things / case study >>>
Not information as central but rather what can be done with that
information as tools and technological processes
“users can take control of technology”“users become doers”
“What we think, how we think become expressed in goods,
services and intellectual output”
This revolution has been much more globally pervasive and much quicker
1st – steam engine – towards the end of the 18th century
2nd – development of electricitya period of accelerating
unprecedented technological changethat brought about a sudden
transformation in the production and distribution of goods
Castells calls this a “new socio-technological paradigm”
Microelectronics!
From centralized data storage to networked interactive computer power
sharing
Social roots of technology – the information technology was American with a Californian inclination (Silicon Valley) key
technologies
This has ideologies, some proponents, some vehemently against
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“Because information is an integral part of all human activity, all processes of our individual and collective existence are
directly shaped…by the new technological medium”
Andrew Keen on Web 2.0
Krotosky argues that the web is a platform and isn’t inherently good or bad – neither
is it neutral.
Case studies >>>
Krotoski says, rather than asking how technology has changed society we should
be asking how do the ways in which we use technology reflect or change our
behaviors…
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Thiereridentifies two types of internet pessimism;
“net skeptics” – pessimistic about the internet improving conditions for mankind
And…
“net lovers” – appreciate the benefits but also fear that those benefits are
disappearing – i.e. the internet is getting more closed
Thierer asserts that we are better in an information abundance than we are in a
society in which we are starved of information
We should also not underestimate the “disruptive effects of technology” but we should learn to cope and adjust to it in a proactive fashion, rather than harp back
for a time before.