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> 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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Technologies as Forms of Life

In this chapter, Langdon Winner discusses what he calls “technological somnambulism.” 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...

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> Technologies certainly have impacts, but they also can restructure our physical and social worlds, and so how we live. Winner argues that this understanding of technologies as “forms of life” needs to inform our evaluations and choices regarding technological innovation and adoption.
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Nov 30, 2023 at 12:39amWeb