What Else is New?
no one is very good at predicting technological futures; new and old technologies coexist; and technological significance and technological novelty are rarely the same—indeed, a given technology’s grip on our awareness is often in inverse relationship to its significance in our lives. Above all, Edgerton says that we are wrong to associate technology solely with invention, and that we should think of it, rather, as evolving through use.
Steven Shapin, ‘How uses, not innovations,
drive human technology‘
[x]#2735 fan dinsdag 8 mei 2007 @ 00:12:18
