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Examples of using technology - why things bite back

  • 1.  Examples of using technology - why things bite back

    Posted 01-05-2000 10:20
    John L. Naman wrote:

    > Intended or unintended?
    >
    > 1. Printing press - freed average person from tyranny of clerics and
    > professors (woops!)
    > 2. Mechanical warfare - required women to replace men in factories,
    > proving
    > that they could do the job.
    > 3. Mass communications, radio and TV
    > 4. Farm mechanization - caused transformation from agrarian to
    > cosmopolitan
    > society.
    > 5. Rifle and revolvers - enabled average person to pioneer American
    > West and
    > live to tell about it.

    Those are interesting/usefull links & outcomes of technology. Thanks.
    For some more linkages along these lines, check out

    Tenner Edward, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of
    Unintended Consequences, Alfred A. Knopf, New York , 1996, ISBN:
    0-679-42563-2

    'Systems' people would say it's a case of finding out the links, after
    the fact. But some were probably predicted, or even wanted (!).

    Jay
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