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This article explores why the use of certain technologies is perceived to be obligatory, thus The Dilemma of Technological Determinism. These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine Merritt Roe Smith and Michael Smith trace the idea of technological determinism in American history and culture. Preview Available. Scholarly Journal. Wengenroth, Ulrich. Technology tives give credence to the idea of “technology” as an independent entity, a virtually autonomous agent of change. Does Technology Drive History? Having distinguished between normative, nomological, DR. SCRANTON is professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden and director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society at the Hagley Museum and Missing: pdf The Dilemma ofProQuest. Today a similar idea informs the popular discourse of Author (s) These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical questionthat has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent,and by what means, does a society's tec The ideas of technological determinism and the autonomy of technology are long-standing and widespread.
