The medium is the message.
I'm really interested in this topic. We really don't think about the societal impact before introducing new technologies to our society- it's just assumed that it's going to improve our lives without any costs. In part because it's so difficult- try putting yourself before the advent of the TV and being able to predict all the changes that it would cause to our culture.
Despite tech having more influence on our lives than ever before, most of the current tech-criticism is shit and the focus is far too narrow. This piece goes into that:
http://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism
I would suggest people check out Neil Postmans work. Great scholar. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, and Building a Bridge to the 18th Century are all great.
Marshall McLuhan is arguably the most influential critics of technology. Harder to read though. McLuhan dwarfs the crowd in their capacity to think about this subject in this video:
I'm really interested in this topic. We really don't think about the societal impact before introducing new technologies to our society- it's just assumed that it's going to improve our lives without any costs. In part because it's so difficult- try putting yourself before the advent of the TV and being able to predict all the changes that it would cause to our culture.
Despite tech having more influence on our lives than ever before, most of the current tech-criticism is shit and the focus is far too narrow. This piece goes into that:
http://thebaffler.com/salvos/taming-tech-criticism
I would suggest people check out Neil Postmans work. Great scholar. Amusing Ourselves to Death, Technopoly, and Building a Bridge to the 18th Century are all great.
Marshall McLuhan is arguably the most influential critics of technology. Harder to read though. McLuhan dwarfs the crowd in their capacity to think about this subject in this video: