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Lecture 12d | MIT 21M.380 Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics), Fall 2009
September 20th, 2010 | Audio Recording
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@BlitzIn4 The whole point I felt he was trying to relay was that technology is not a living organism & it doesn’t just evolve, Agents (People) are required for the advancement of technology. Sorry for replying if you werent really serious about your question. By the way I dont even go to MIT I just like watching their lectures.
@BlitzIn4 From what I gatherd an example would be everyday things we use like cell phones, cell phones were designed to make & recieve calls. Now cellphones are like litle netbooks. The process cell phones went through was technological determinism to become what they are today cell phone technology was enabled by an agent (engineers & designers) to make cellphones what they are today to be able to send & recieve text , eventually adding tools like cameras,calculators,calanders,Email etc.
So could a couple examples of technological determinism be:
* how the result of Automobiles have separated people and forced them to live further from the ‘city’, thus removing our choice to limit our CO2 output, own a farm in the ‘city’ - which has to be moved to a less trafficed area away from the city, and increased our consumption of the radio.
* how Television’s have, ‘brainwashed’ people, parents can’t compete with million dollar commercials, family’s grow distant, people grow distant….
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