Hey no Hypertext this week, it feels weird and I kinda miss it. You would think that after these few months of having a blog I would have learnt something about text based sarcasm but I digress. This week I read Culture and Technology by Andrew Murphie and John Potts. The reading first introduced the work of Raymond Williams and technological determinism which I am familiar with through histories of technologies. Technological determinism is basically states that technology does not determine human action, but that rather, human action shapes technology. There is also a counter argument made by McLuhan and claims that not only is technology independent from societal pressures, it actually impacts society. I believe that there is no real right answer there has been times in history when society affected technology and vice versa.