Technology today: utopia or dystopia?
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 eng...
| Publicado en: | Social Research Vol. 64; pp. 989 - 1018 |
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New School for Social Research
Fall 1997
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