Technological Determinism, Just Say Know…
Please make it stop!
As a way of looking at the future, technological determinism, i.e. technology as the driver social change, has been so discredited that’s it’s no longer funny & yet it keeps popping up like an arcade game of “whack-a-mole”. It’s a simplistic zombie theory that won’t die because it fits so neatly into the business plans of technocrats, their investors & well, people who just hate their own bodies.
Technology is just a part of a broader spectrum of human activity and social change is driven by society rather than machines, i.e. we have agency to act independently & make free choices.
The path of innovation and its social consequences are almost entirely shaped by society as a result of numerous social factors such as culture, politics, regulatory mechanisms and economic arrangements.
Food patented by a corporation who will demand royalties?
The industrialisation of pregnancy and child birth?
Oh please! Give me a break 😆
As an alternative scenario I offer you:
