Technology the wide concept of knowing and using everything, such as tools and crafts, Woodward, 2013 has been known for a long time | 1987 Does improved technology mean progress? Technology and Culture, 10 4 489-513 Woodward, R |
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Technology Review, [volume and part number not found]: 33-44 Marx, L | Marx, 1997 They looked at it in a positive way as a sign of social progress until about the last seventy five years, when few Americans have started to see the new technology in a negative way |
Social Research, 64 3 : 965-988 McDermott, J.
14Mesthene, 1967 McDermott has argued that technology should have a positive effect only, but because those who are stood behind its invention are not aware enough of the society, it has the negative face | Finding a main criterion to measure the technology effect if it is good or bad, such as those were mentioned by Marx 1987 to answer his question, if improved technology means progress or not, focusing on three main issues for measurement, efficiencies, cost, and trouble elimination |
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Marx, 1987 This thought change may have accrued synchronizing with the huge social change that has come with the new technology, and has been viewed as a sign of serious technology effect | 1969 Some General Implication of the Research of the Harvard University Program on Technology and Society |
Cowan, 2010 This seems to be true, because many innovations were invented at the beginning for military purposes, such as Internet, Radar, GPS, and digital photography, were adapted for civilian uses, such as communication, microwave, navigation, and digital camera.
12Technology and Culture, 10 4 : 528-534 Marx, L | Regardless of the debate about the positive or negative technology effects, some scientists argue that technology use has given mankind superiority over the animal, because it has assisted them to control their environment, and change their way of life continuously |
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Technology and Culture, 53 2 : 525-529 Mesthene, E | 1969 Comment: The Role of Technology in Society and the Need for Historical Perspective |
New York Review of Books, 31st July 1969 [page not known] McDermott, J.
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