When is this thing going to end? Seriously that’s what you’ll be asking yourself when you read Thomas Misa’s take on the technological affects on micro and macro levels of society. In the 26 page beast of a chapter, after filtering through examples that didn’t click what so ever, I came upon the conclusion that this entire piece was comparing technology on different levels of society. He describes macro, and how technology affects society as a whole. He them condenses his thoughts into the micro level of society, and defends, saying that this is the section where technological determinism truly affects. Though he final finds a medium between the two and calls it the messo level of society and claims that this is the type of society we should live in. Quite honestly, I could care less. This author lost me at the second page in and none of his arguments could really stick with me. This chapter could have been well done had it been 5 pages of meaningful incite with examples, because I like where he’s coming from on the subject; But there is far too much information to comprehend and make an informed decision on the matter. This chapter was NOT fun.
Retrieving Sociotechnical Change from Technological Determinism
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