From the readings, ANT can potentially be used for a variety of tasks. The most
relevant of these tasks is exploring the questions of why and how we have the
technologies that we do. ANT provides a research trajectory that can reveal complexities
and contingencies that are too often overlooked in accounts of technology.
Unfortunately, ANT does not easily lend itself to dialectical sociotechnical
interpretations. The social study of technology should not be limited to rejecting
technological determinism or social reductionism (although this is invaluable) – it should
also attempt to point out alternative trajectories to technological modernity. This is
difficult using ANT on its own primarily because of its methodological rules