technological determinism
description: theory holding that social progress is shaped by technological progress
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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
sound of music released on said platforms.14 These academic terms are especially helpful in breaking down the overly simplistic narrative of what gets called technological determinism—that these powerful technological systems are controlling us like puppet masters, deciding our actions. At the same time, it would be untrue to claim that
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
Ilyich Lenin, ‘Notes on Electrification’, February 1921, reprinted (1977) in Collected Works, Vol. 42 (Moscow:Progress Publishers): 280–1, cited in Sally Wyatt, ‘Technological Determinism is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism’, in Philosophy of Technology, 458. 53. Leon Trotsky, ‘What is National Socialism?’ Marxists, last modified 25 April 2007 <https://www.marxists.org/archive
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/ 2016/03/18/ralph-lauren-polotech-review/> (accessed 6 Dec. 2017). Smith, Merritt Roe, and Leo Marx, eds. Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1994. Solon, Olivia. ‘World’s Largest Hedge Fund to Replace Managers with Artificial Intelligence’. The Guardian, 22 Dec. 2016 <https://www
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
so—though millions of Blacks and other disenfranchised groups were prevented from voting through various voter-suppression schemes.57 As always, we should beware of technological determinism and of concluding that the rise of mass media led to the rise of large-scale democracy. Mass media made large-scale democracy possible, rather
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even flourish in this startling new world? NO DETERMINISM The most important thing to remember is that technology, in itself, is seldom deterministic. Belief in technological determinism is dangerous because it excuses people of all responsibility. Yes, since human societies are information networks, inventing new information technologies is bound to change society
The Transhumanist Reader
by Max More and Natasha Vita-More · 4 Mar 2013 · 798pp · 240,182 words
implausible endogenous growth models can produce radical growth appears to support some forms of the singularity concept. A common criticism is that technological singularity assumes technological determinism. This appears untrue: several if not all of the singularity concepts in the introduction could apply even if technology just exhibited trends driven by non
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words
“accumulated unanticipated consequences.” We accept the idea that technology must not be impeded if society is to prosper, and in this way we surrender to technological determinism. Rational consideration of social values is considered “retrograde,” Winner writes, “not the ticket that scientific technology gives to civilization.… To this day, any suggestions that
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
most common Users or even to other components of the system. 17.. Platform sovereignty may be planned or unplanned, universal or specific, generative or reactive, technologically determined or politically guaranteed. Platform sovereignty is automatic under some circumstances and highly contingent under others, and it may function differently in relation to different components
Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage
by Douglas B. Laney · 4 Sep 2017 · 374pp · 94,508 words
Empire of Guns
by Priya Satia · 10 Apr 2018 · 927pp · 216,549 words
Transportation Advantages as Main Causes of European Colonial Conquests to 1788.” Journal of Military History 63 (1999): 631–41. ——— . “War-Winning Weapons: The Measurement of Technological Determinism in Military History.” Journal of Military History 54 (1990): 403–34. ———, ed. Technology, Disease and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays Reappraising the Guns
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words
Human Affairs 45 The first methodological choice concerns how one should treat the role of technology in the development of human affairs. The kind of technological determinism that typified Lewis Mumford, or, specifically in the area of communications, Marshall McLuhan, is widely perceived in academia today [pg 17] as being too deterministic
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to be done, and things that are harder to do are less likely to be done. All other things are never equal. That is why technological determinism in the strict sense--if you have technology "t," you should expect social structure or relation "s" to emerge--is false. Ocean navigation had a
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said. These differences structure the social relations that rely on these various modes of communication so that they differ from each other in significant ways. Technological determinism is not required to accept this. Some aspects of the difference are purely technical. Script allows text and more or less crude images to be
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
nature. They only work if the new product is physically possible, but they also rely on discrete choices by specific people. An extreme form of technological determinism ascribes agency to technology and conceives of it as a quasi-autonomous process that, following an internal logic, controls the historical evolution of our techno
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valuable insights into the nature of technological innovation. But both fail to fully capture the dynamics of technological change, because innovation unfolds at different scales. Technological determinism makes the mistake of suppressing agency. For example, singularitarianism—the techno-optimist view of runaway progress in AI—and technological doomerism—the belief that technological
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provide especially remarkable recent examples of thymotic agency. The model of technological progress we’ve outlined in this book attempts to circumvent the Scylla of technological determinism and the Charybdis of social constructivism by integrating both the individualistic and deterministic dimensions of bubbles and technological innovation. As Part II shows, in the
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion ofSafety
by Eric Schlosser · 16 Sep 2013 · 956pp · 267,746 words
The Nature of Technology
by W. Brian Arthur · 6 Aug 2009 · 297pp · 77,362 words
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
by Victor Davis Hanson · 16 Oct 2017 · 908pp · 262,808 words
What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly · 14 Jul 2010 · 476pp · 132,042 words
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker · 24 Sep 2012 · 1,351pp · 385,579 words
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
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Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
by Robert Skidelsky · 13 Nov 2018
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
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The Cultural Logic of Computation
by David Golumbia · 31 Mar 2009 · 268pp · 109,447 words
Hacking Capitalism
by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;
What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
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Bomb Scare
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by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig · 15 Mar 2020
Data and the City
by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle · 2 Aug 2017
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child
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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
by Benjamin R. Barber · 5 Nov 2013 · 501pp · 145,943 words
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
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The Googlization of Everything:
by Siva Vaidhyanathan · 1 Jan 2010 · 281pp · 95,852 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
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The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by David Wootton · 7 Dec 2015 · 1,197pp · 304,245 words
Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)
by Andrew L. Russell · 27 Apr 2014 · 675pp · 141,667 words
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by Louis Hyman · 3 Jan 2011
You Are Not a Gadget
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis
by Sugrue, Thomas J.
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words
Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World
by David Kerrigan · 18 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 80,835 words
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman · 19 Feb 2019 · 339pp · 94,769 words
The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright · 28 Dec 2010
I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict
by Kenneth Payne · 16 Jun 2021 · 339pp · 92,785 words
The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
by David Edgerton · 7 Dec 2006 · 353pp · 91,211 words
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
by Paul Lockhart · 15 Mar 2021
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
by Kentaro Toyama · 25 May 2015 · 494pp · 116,739 words
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash · 23 May 2016 · 743pp · 201,651 words
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel · 3 Oct 2016 · 504pp · 126,835 words
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
by Henry Jenkins · 31 Jul 2006
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by Unknown · 7 Jun 2012
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by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
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The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning
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The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise
by Nathan L. Ensmenger · 31 Jul 2010 · 429pp · 114,726 words
The Best Business Writing 2013
by Dean Starkman · 1 Jan 2013 · 514pp · 152,903 words
Marxian Economic Theory
by Meghnad Desai · 20 May 2013
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The Hacker Crackdown
by Bruce Sterling · 15 Mar 1992 · 345pp · 105,722 words
Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
by Michael Specter · 14 Apr 2009 · 281pp · 79,958 words
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
by E. Gabriella Coleman · 25 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 107,788 words
Hard Landing
by Thomas Petzinger and Thomas Petzinger Jr. · 1 Jan 1995 · 726pp · 210,048 words
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
by Carlota Pérez · 1 Jan 2002
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
by Douglas Coupland · 29 Sep 2014 · 124pp · 36,360 words
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
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The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
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The Art of SQL
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The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
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Brave New World of Work
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Distrust That Particular Flavor
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
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The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
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