Something that jumped out at me from this week’s reading was the notion that technological change is autonomous, removed from social pressures, following a logic or imperative of it’s own. This is questionable. Technological change in my opinion continues to evolve as a direct result of human desire, wants and needs, as well as their collective determination to improve and build the world around us. This is a type of social pressure is it not?

 
Stephen Hill later in the reading disagrees, “technological change… is not, by itself, productive of social change.” Whatever you say Stephen. He puts it down to the alignment between the technological possibilities and the society and culture that exists, which I think is kind of a given. Of course technological change depends on the possibilities the society have to create such a change. Not everything is possible in the present. We have to work towards such things – technology is just one of many examples.