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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