Responses to these ideas? Take either side.
1. Technology has trade offs and benefits and harms society. e.g) cars
2. Technology has %26quot;winners and losers%26quot; e.g) Bill Gates v.s the man fired because he doesnt understand computers
3. Technology creates a perspective of the world e.g) Photographers view the world as photos. Techies view the world as data, information, etc.
4. Technology is ecological (one invention affects the world) e.g) the computers change our entire world
5. Technology is %26quot;mythic%26quot; (taken as a natural order) e.g) A power outage would render many unable to do anything etc...
How would you respond to the above ideas? Are they right or do you disagree?
as a side note, these ideas are form Neil Postman
Technology and its effects?
1. Technology has trade offs and benefits and harms society. e.g) cars
It makes us lazy, but it also offers things like improved health
2. Technology has %26quot;winners and losers%26quot; e.g) Bill Gates v.s the man fired because he doesnt understand computers
**** the man fired, he can go pick some crops
3. Technology creates a perspective of the world e.g) Photographers view the world as photos. Techies view the world as data, information, etc.
People create perspectives
4. Technology is ecological (one invention affects the world) e.g) the computers change our entire world
Obviously this is true. see Q2
5. Technology is %26quot;mythic%26quot; (taken as a natural order) e.g) A power outage would render many unable to do anything etc...
Yes and no. some people would go nuts, and some would be happy
Technology and its effects?
There dead on!!!!!! its mind bottling
