This assumption underlies much that we receive through our news media. Technological determinism embodies the widely held belief that hardware and software technology are the ultimate cause of social change. It was implicit or explicit in its technological determinism and reductionist in its portrayal of modern technology as primarily applied science and economics.
Another objective is to encourage students in engineering schools to broaden and enrich their understanding of technological change through the study of the new history of technology. One purpose of this essay is to examine progress made in the field of the history of technology and to invite engineers, industrial scientists, and managers to draw on, and contribute to, this available body of knowledge. This new history shows that the engineer's field of action is the sociotechnical system. The new history of technology shows that those who wish to preside over technological change need to master social, political, and economic factors as well as technical ones. Today we see technology as interacting with society we now study technology as sociotechnical systems. From Deterministic Dynamos to Seamless-Web Systemsĭuring the past few decades, the scholarly study of the history of technology has made impressive strides toward placing technological change in a historical perspective and presenting the fruits of historical scholarship in a manner consonant with the experience of engineers, industrial scientists, and managers.
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