The success of corporate marketing strategies depends upon a rapid turnover of new products, model changes, and fashion contours. To be caught selling last year's model, even a perfectly good one, is taken to be a sign of weakness. The same is true of advancement within professional careers, including academic careers, which are predicated on a rapid turnover of shiny new intellectual products; scholars and scientists are rewarded for producing new knowledge rather than, for example, seeking the wisdom needed to make better use of knowledge that already exists.
-- Langdon Winner

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"Technological politics is a way of framing technologies as neither 'good', 'bad', or 'neutral'. It suggests that, instead, technologies are the products of deeply political processes, knowledge, and systems."

#AGrowingCulture, 2024

https://substack.com/home/post/p-143200453

This piece links to a paper called 'Do Artifacts Have Politics?' by Langdon Winner. After searching with a few different search portals, I found the full text on the web;

https://backspace.com/notes/2008/06/do-artifacts-have-politics.php

#TechnologicalPolitics #LangdonWinner

> Utopian visions of earlier technological periods
> If you thought that computers were the first panacea for all our ills, how about steam, electrical power, and electronics?

Bertrand Russel on Science Arundhati Roy on power seems more helpful than #TechEuphoria writings.
Steam had hype like #LLM #SalamiAI #CyberneticAI ..

From #MythInformation by #LangdonWinner

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/phil27/s24/papers/Mythinformation.pdf

Surveillance Capitalism foreseen in 1984
> .. It's surprising how accurately Winner's [1984] predictions describe modern [2011] society. Passivity and complacency, the illusion of connectedness in the face of isolation, real democracy collapsing under the weight of increased media exposure and ubiquitous monitoring of citizens.

https://darcynorman.net/notes/2011/2011-01-02-the-whale-and-the-reactor-mythinformation/

#DArcyNorman with
#LangdonWinner on #MythInformation

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/phil27/s24/papers/Mythinformation.pdf

#EdwardAFeigenbaum #PamelaMcCorduck #TheFifthGeneration

> Langdon Winner.. calls “#TechnologicalSomnambulism ” Our capacity and willingness to reflect on the significance of technology and to critically evaluate new technologies lags far behind our capacity for creating and disseminating technologies. As a result, we “willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.” .. reasons for this somnambulism.. beliefs about.. neutrality.. and technological determinism.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137349088_4
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