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• How Society Shapes Technology
• By Robert Pool

By Sarah Bachman and Katherine Petta
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Who can impact technology?

• One hundred years ago technological development
  was embraced
• Today we seem to be more skeptical
• Special interest groups / campaigns

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How technology is developed

• Large scale development
• Hierarchical in nature
• Group effort vs. individual

How important is it that we understand the
technology we use every day?
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Societys Pull on Technology

• Popularity (demand)
• Advertising
• Funding

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What is the Nature of Human Knowledge?

• Positivism accepts as knowledge only that which
  can be verified by the scientific method
  (objective / rational)
• Social construction theory knowledge stems from
  the interpretations, beliefs and meanings shared
  by groups of people (subjective)