Technological determinism.

This theory seems pretty self explanatory as the name states, technology determines the ways that humans exist within the world. It has some very good points and examples about how it is the case, for instance the creation of writing transformed the oral culture of humans into a literacy based one and that because of the creation of writing it has transformed the human consciousness. A fairly big statement but seeing as I wasn’t there when our race was predominantly oral based i can’t comment. Does technology determine everything though? I would be inclined to disagree, after all there must be someone who creates the technology. Thats why I would move to create another party in the theory. Technology is in the middle, below is the consumers of the technology who are very well determined by the technology, but then above the technology there are the creators of the technology who create it for one reason or the other. This is just another theory and i would be more then happy to agree that it is rather a big subject and the simplicity of all the theories in comparison don’t quite sum it up.