| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on technology and culture. The writer discusses the advantages and disadvantages of technology today. He focuses on digital technology as a cultural solvent, technological drivenness and social construction, utopian dreams and dystopian shadows of technology, and direct engagement with technical things. He concludes that, in most instances, the origins and character of approaching technological change are unclear to workers, consumers, and ordinary citizens because they have never been included in research projects, engineering designs, or business plans, including ones that are destined to change their lives considerably.
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