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  2. Technology and society - Wikipedia

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    Although these previous examples only show a few of the positive aspects of technology in society, there are negative side effects as well. [6] Within this virtual realm, social media platforms such as Instagram , Facebook , and Snapchat have altered the way Generation Y culture is understanding the world and thus how they view themselves.

  3. Social shaping of technology - Wikipedia

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    There are preconditions, such as monthly bills and access to electricity. There are also many unintended consequences such as the unintended distraction they cause for many people. Not only does technology affect society, but according to SST, society affects technology by way of economics, politics, and culture (Baym, 2015).

  4. Theories of technology - Wikipedia

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    Normative: an autonomous approach where technology is an important influence on history only where societies attached cultural and political meaning to it (e.g., the industrialization of society) Nomological : a naturalistic approach wherein an inevitable technological order arises based on laws of nature (e.g., steam mill had to follow the ...

  5. Technology is great -- but people still need human contact

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    The human moment is a quality of interaction that you don't get through technology, even phones. Technology has been helpful for the most part; it makes our lives better. But difficulty occurs ...

  6. Social construction of technology - Wikipedia

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    Social construction of technology (SCOT) is a theory within the field of science and technology studies. Advocates of SCOT—that is, social constructivists—argue that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. They also argue that the ways a technology is used cannot be understood without ...

  7. Technological unemployment - Wikipedia

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    Even commentators who are pessimistic about long-term technological unemployment invariably consider innovation to be an overall benefit to society, with J. S. Mill being perhaps the only prominent western political economist to have suggested prohibiting the use of technology as a possible solution to unemployment.

  8. Anthropology of technology - Wikipedia

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    Blacksmith at work, Nuremberg c. 1606 The anthropology of technology (AoT) is a unique, diverse, and growing field of study that bears much in common with kindred developments in the sociology and history of technology: first, a growing refusal to view the role of technology in human societies as the irreversible and predetermined consequence of a given technology's putative "inner logic"; and ...

  9. Ethics of technology - Wikipedia

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    Heidegger warned people that technology was dangerous in that it exerted control over people through its mediating effects, thus limiting authenticity of experience in the world that defines life and gives life meaning. [6] It is an intimate part of the human condition, deeply entrenched in all human history, society and mind. [6]