Technological determinism is the belief that technology drives societal change, but this view became less popular in the 1990s. While technology does shape human communication and behavior to some degree, the extent and ways it does so depend on various circumstances. Early tool use transformed human abilities and may have contributed to brain development. Whether and how technology impacts behavior results from an interplay of technological, social, and cultural factors. While technology can make actions easier through features like self-monitoring and social sharing, predicting its effects is difficult due to human variability in adoption and use of technology. Behavioral design must consider this unpredictability.
This is an excerpt from a lecture that I give at the National University of Maynooth on the relationship of technology with society. It reviews concepts of technological determinism and outlines Raymond Williams' influential social shaping of technology perspective.
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
Overview of technological determinism and technological inevitablism. Analysis of implications in four key areas; environment, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, poverty.
This is an excerpt from a lecture that I give at the National University of Maynooth on the relationship of technology with society. It reviews concepts of technological determinism and outlines Raymond Williams' influential social shaping of technology perspective.
This lecture looks at Determinism and Technological Determinism. This lecture is part of the Media and Cultural Theories module on the MSc and MA in Creative Technology and Creative Games at The University of Salford.
Overview of technological determinism and technological inevitablism. Analysis of implications in four key areas; environment, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, poverty.
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
Technological determinism, media ecology and medium theory are all interrelated and make sense together. This paper will define those three terms and explain their purposes, as well as their relation to each other. Understanding technological determinism, media ecology, as well as medium theory is particularly crucial today in our modernized society. It allows one to better perceive the evolution of technologies and its impacts on societies and on people.
The is a brief presentation on the central tenets of Bikjer and Pinch's theory on significant factors at play in forming, developing, adopting, and establishing sociotechnical objects.
My presentation at the Media Ecology Association Convention 2010. Objective: to explore and expand the ecological metaphor including concepts like media evolution, media extinction, human-media coevolution, etc.
Internet of things and the metamorphosis of objects - rick bouter , gérald ...Rick Bouter
Where in prior times technique was referring to: “a method of accomplishing a desired aim”,
today we speak more of technology. Technology has long been presented as a set of
techniques; today it has become more than a method to accomplish a desired aim. From now
on, we live in ‘the age of makers’. In times when there are more people with mobile phone
access than toothbrushes, everyone has the ability to start up a million euro business from
behind the kitchen table.
Technology does not only affect business any longer; it also affects culture, politics, society
and every element we value in life. Maybe most important of all, it affects the human race as
we know it today. For the reason technology will impact the way we have lived for ages, it is
legitimate to ask whether there is an intersection where humans and objects will find a
mutually beneficial coexistence, or whether one of these entities will rule over the other, or
whether there will be an alliance between the human race and some sort of technology that
represents a global connected world brain.
Will technology be, like in prior times, a collection of methods to accomplishing a desired
aim, or will the human race be enslaved by technology and ruled by the artificial intelligence
embedded in it?
Humanity Vs Technology - A "Quote-Unquote" Debate #edcmoocRajiv Bajaj
This is my digital artefact submission for the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC (EDCMOOC 3 : Nov-Dec14). The quotes I have used in the presentation bring out beautifully the debate on technology vs humanity and utopia vs dystopia - a debate that is as old as recorded history itself.
as mankind has evolved, so has technology. From the day and age of the wheel to the age of space travel, we certainly have come a long way. Yet, the viewpoints on technology differ. The dystopian view would be that technology tends to make slaves of us humans, rather than being masters of the technology created by us. The opposite view would perhaps be that we owe our very progress and existence to technology. Are either of the views wrong ?
Not in my view. Both are equally valid. Too much of a good thing can be bad. But then, when we speak of humanity falling prey to technology, we really cannot generalise. In my view, technology is there to make life simpler and more advanced. It all depends on how we use it. Becoming a slave to technology is also a choice, as is using it judiciously. That's my view, and you, the reader, are welcome to yours. Neither of us would be wrong. The debates on Humanity vs technology have always been there and will continue to rage long after you and I are gone.
These quotes, however, bring out the essence of the debate, and I will let the slides speak for themselves.
Lecture slides on McLuhan lecture for ARIN2600 Technocultures at the University of Sydney. This explores McLuhan's probing approach to media, which positions technology as an extension of human faculties. By implication, changes in media / technology change what it is to be human. McLuhan remains a controversial, but influential figure in media and new media studies.
Technological determinism, media ecology and medium theory are all interrelated and make sense together. This paper will define those three terms and explain their purposes, as well as their relation to each other. Understanding technological determinism, media ecology, as well as medium theory is particularly crucial today in our modernized society. It allows one to better perceive the evolution of technologies and its impacts on societies and on people.
The is a brief presentation on the central tenets of Bikjer and Pinch's theory on significant factors at play in forming, developing, adopting, and establishing sociotechnical objects.
My presentation at the Media Ecology Association Convention 2010. Objective: to explore and expand the ecological metaphor including concepts like media evolution, media extinction, human-media coevolution, etc.
Internet of things and the metamorphosis of objects - rick bouter , gérald ...Rick Bouter
Where in prior times technique was referring to: “a method of accomplishing a desired aim”,
today we speak more of technology. Technology has long been presented as a set of
techniques; today it has become more than a method to accomplish a desired aim. From now
on, we live in ‘the age of makers’. In times when there are more people with mobile phone
access than toothbrushes, everyone has the ability to start up a million euro business from
behind the kitchen table.
Technology does not only affect business any longer; it also affects culture, politics, society
and every element we value in life. Maybe most important of all, it affects the human race as
we know it today. For the reason technology will impact the way we have lived for ages, it is
legitimate to ask whether there is an intersection where humans and objects will find a
mutually beneficial coexistence, or whether one of these entities will rule over the other, or
whether there will be an alliance between the human race and some sort of technology that
represents a global connected world brain.
Will technology be, like in prior times, a collection of methods to accomplishing a desired
aim, or will the human race be enslaved by technology and ruled by the artificial intelligence
embedded in it?
Humanity Vs Technology - A "Quote-Unquote" Debate #edcmoocRajiv Bajaj
This is my digital artefact submission for the E-Learning & Digital Cultures MOOC (EDCMOOC 3 : Nov-Dec14). The quotes I have used in the presentation bring out beautifully the debate on technology vs humanity and utopia vs dystopia - a debate that is as old as recorded history itself.
as mankind has evolved, so has technology. From the day and age of the wheel to the age of space travel, we certainly have come a long way. Yet, the viewpoints on technology differ. The dystopian view would be that technology tends to make slaves of us humans, rather than being masters of the technology created by us. The opposite view would perhaps be that we owe our very progress and existence to technology. Are either of the views wrong ?
Not in my view. Both are equally valid. Too much of a good thing can be bad. But then, when we speak of humanity falling prey to technology, we really cannot generalise. In my view, technology is there to make life simpler and more advanced. It all depends on how we use it. Becoming a slave to technology is also a choice, as is using it judiciously. That's my view, and you, the reader, are welcome to yours. Neither of us would be wrong. The debates on Humanity vs technology have always been there and will continue to rage long after you and I are gone.
These quotes, however, bring out the essence of the debate, and I will let the slides speak for themselves.
Author: Mirko Presser
The Alexandra Institute
Contributors
Srdjan Krco (Dunavnet)
Tobias Kowatsch (University of St. Gallen)
Stefan Fischer (University of Luebeck)
Wolfgang Maas (Saarland University)
Sebastian Lange (Deloitte)
Francois Carrez (University of Surrey)
Bernard Hun (University of Surrey)
Richard Egan (Thales UK, Research and Technology)
Jan Höller (Ericsson AB)
Alessandro Bassi (Alessandro Bassi Consulting)
Stephan Haller (Vigience AG)
Martin Fiedler (Fraunhofer IML)
Luis Muñoz (University of Cantabria)
Louise Lønborg Rustrup (The Alexandra Institute)
João Fernandes (The Alexandra Institute)
Production Team:
Tine Kaag Raun (The Alexandra Institute)
Michael Skotting (Raaskot Visuel Kommunikation)
Mirko Presser (The Alexandra Institute)
Stig Andersen (Thingvalla Kommunikation)
Bente Kjølby Larsen (The Alexandra Institute)
Susanne Brøndberg (The Alexandra Institute)
Lene Holst Mortensen (The Alexandra Institute)
Interviews by Stig Andersen
The Internet of Things Comic Book is a publication of
the Internet of Things International Forum and is powered
by the Alexandra Institute and partially funded by
the
FP7 ICT ‘Internet of Things Initiative’ Coordination
Action,
contract number 257565
Comic Book scenes sponsored by Smart Aarhus
www.smartaarhus.dk
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This is my second lecture about experience design at HITLab i Ne Zealand. As designers we have this amazing opportunity to change the world, thus, in fact, we always design for the future and not the present. I believe that it is crucial to understand the changes that transform our societies not only from the economical or social perspective but also from the technological one. Trends allow us to see what the future could be like and provide inspiration to change it in a way be trust would be the best.
The Future World is a presentation by Sasha Kazantseva first done at the Woman Development Forum in Guernsey. Sasha explores the technology trends of the past 300 years and the implications for the future.
We live in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world where the main currency is ideas and innovation and the most important investment you can make if you.
Sasha blogs at www.startupme.co
Sasha is a Guernsey resident technology entrepreneur, angel investor and NED. She set up her first venture in school aged 16 and the entrepreneurial spark never left her. Since then she has worked for Google, L'Oreal and Priceline, co-founded a private start-up accelerator, a green activist group in Russia and launched a mobile game for iOS.
At Google, Sasha created or co-founded global award winning campaigns such as the Google Cultural Institute and a big data predictor algorithm for competitions. She is passionate about supporting and promoting startup ecosystems and is involved with projects in Guernsey as a director with Start Up Guernsey, committee member of Creative Industries.
She has lived and worked in Singapore, Thailand, Mongolia, Russia, UK and Spain and holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD. She lives in Guernsey with her husband, whom she met climbing Mt Kilimanjaro for charity, and their twin daughters.
The information network created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to connect people to knowledge has become an important place to navigate who and what we know, as well as who we think we are. But how much of a revolution is it? This lecture will trace some of the most important developments in social uses of information technologies in order to ultimately argue that the Web does offer unprecedented opportunities to access information and galvanise communities of practice, but that the impact of this new medium will reflect an evolution rather than a revolution of communication practices.
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This presentation by Morris Kleiner (University of Minnesota), was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found out at oe.cd/crps.
This presentation was uploaded with the author’s consent.
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f you offer a service on the web, odds are that someone will abuse it. Be it an API, a SaaS, a PaaS, or even a static website, someone somewhere will try to figure out a way to use it to their own needs. In this talk we'll compare measures that are effective against static attackers and how to battle a dynamic attacker who adapts to your counter-measures.
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Madeline Smith, The Glasgow School of Art
Have you ever wondered how search works while visiting an e-commerce site, internal website, or searching through other types of online resources? Look no further than this informative session on the ways that taxonomies help end-users navigate the internet! Hear from taxonomists and other information professionals who have first-hand experience creating and working with taxonomies that aid in navigation, search, and discovery across a range of disciplines.
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2. Technological determinism
• 'The belief in technology as a key governing
force in society ..’ (Smith, 1977)
• Became unpopular in 1990s – socio-technical
perspectives…but…
– Now, the question is no longer: does technology
shape human communication, but rather: under what
circumstances, in what ways, and to what extent?
(Herring, 2004, 26-27)
– Everyone wants to be healthier, but most don’t have
enough time for it, so the [Samsung] S5 can now do it
for you.
4. Tools and Behaviour
• First tool use around
3 million years ago.
• Early tools
transformed abilities
(e.g. to remove flesh
from animals)
• May have heralded
evolution of energy
hungry brain
10. Extension
• Based on McLuhan’s definition of
media
• Technology and tools…
• Make things faster, easier, more
efficient.
• Remove barriers to completing an
action – ease of completion
• Makes new actions possible
• Changes the reward structure
18. Behavioural Design vs. Unpredictability…
• The Frankenstein Syndrome: One creates a
machine for a particular and limited purpose. But
once the machine is built, we discover, always to
our surprise - that it has ideas of its own; that it
is quite capable not only of changing our habits
but... of changing our habits of mind (Postman
1983, p. 23)
• Lao Tzu 6th
Century BC, "Those who have
knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict,
don't have knowledge”
19. Telephone
• Dismissed as an ‘electrical
toy’
• Seen as a broadcast
device...
– “dancing party...with no need
for a musician” (Nature, 1876)
– Telephone newspapers
• Social chat discouraged
– 30% of telephone use
‘unnecessary idle gossip’
(1909)
20. • …in order to make money
out of those users and
satisfy the denizens of
Wall Street, it has to
become ever more
intrusive and manipulative.
It's condemned, in other
words, to intrusive
overstretch. Which is why,
in the end, it will become a
footnote in the history of
the internet.
• John Naughton, Guardian,
27th
January 2013
22. Health wearables and behaviour
capturecapture
analyseanalyse
Self-monitoringSelf-monitoring
motivationmotivation
shareshare
comparisoncomparison
Social proofSocial proof
Ease /
simplicity
Ease /
simplicity
kairoskairos
Social
actors
Social
actors
consistencyconsistency
Biases /
nudges
Biases /
nudges
23.
24. So…There’s another side
to behavioural
design and
determinism
The inherent
unpredictability of
human behaviour
and adoption of
technology
B = f (P, E)
Self-monitoring is one of the most powerful BCTs – and tools and technology amplify this effect by making it easier and more effective. Another example is social proof – the herding principle – seen here on Facebook and a deals website.
Of course, a final note worth making is this. Although I’ve argued that we can use technology to change behaviour, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that people are also remarkablly adept at working round technology itself.
Lewin – 1935 – behavior is the product of internal and external factors
![Technological determinism
• 'The belief in technology as a key governing
force in society ..’ (Smith, 1977)
• Became unpopular in 1990s – socio-technical
perspectives…but…
– Now, the question is no longer: does technology
shape human communication, but rather: under what
circumstances, in what ways, and to what extent?
(Herring, 2004, 26-27)
– Everyone wants to be healthier, but most don’t have
enough time for it, so the [Samsung] S5 can now do it
for you.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)