Present an oral argument by fusing each author’s facts recognizing these laws* that:
* Melvin Kranzberg, Professor of Engineering and History, Georgia Tech.
Culture & Technology: A critique of this legacy of gadgetry.
Historical antecedents that have redefined our social and intellectual heritage:
Cultural changes:
Newton, you can never do one thing to solve a problem without creating another one!
Darwin, fitness is defined by doing things to alter or adjust to altered conditions.
Marx, your labor is not your own as it is influenced by & belongs to everyone.
Freud, unless you talk through your fears and fantasies people remain trapped in imature or inappropriate responses to even simple objects.
DeBeauvior, women are not objects to be acquired or placed into inhumane situations but are the engines of social change, who are self actualized persons deserving of respect and individual liberties.
Examine your responses to these interpretations of Kranzberg’s Laws andPresent an oral argument by fusing each author’s facts recognizing these laws* that:
- Technology is neither good nor bad -- merely neutral. {automation & moral choice}
- Technology comes in big (complex) & small (simple) packages. {needs dialogue}
- Technological change alters the power of technocratic elites. {fine technology}
- Invention is the mother of necessity {survival technology}
- Technological change is not inevitable if people become poor thinkers!
Final presentation answer this: can we adapt or are we doomed to continuously confusing our fantasies with reality by the inexorable power if accelerating technical change to deceive us ?
* Kranzberg’s Laws are the intellectual property of the late Melvin Kranzberg, historian of technology and culture at Georgia Tech.
Tools of Toil: what to read. Tools are historical building blocks of technology.
