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technodeterminism

Do you suffer from Mean World Syndrome?

August 16, 2022 by Michelle Ciccone

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Permission to reprint via civicsoftechnology.org Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about technodeterminism— that is, the mindset that assumes technologies will continue to develop on their own terms, according to their own fixed logic, and society needs to adjust itself to whatever comes next. Even the stuff we don’t particularly like or that doesn’t really make us feel good… … [Read more...] about Do you suffer from Mean World Syndrome?

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