Welcome to another late post Interwebs,

Going back to week 7’s readings, we had the Potts Murphy Theory on Technological Determinism (To my displeasure) and an interesting collage reading – screenshotted directly from “Adrian’s kindle for mac”.

So for those who don’t know Technological Determinism is a theory and belief that our culture and society are primarily motivated by the development of technology. A good example is the use of mobile phones, they have quickly grown within the past 20 years and nowadays the majority of people carry them.

A technological determinist might argue that due to mobiles we can not communicate more efficiently and that without them we would still be stuck making phone calls at home. Of course that also comes with risk such as texting whilst driving, online predators…etc. However, maybe a non-technological determinist (someone who is against this theory) challenges this argument with the fact that mobile phones have changed the way we live, the drive of our society is not dependent on the fact that mobiles have been invented.

Despite the fact that I never want to really talk, let alone think about technological determinism (along with the rest of the year level) I do concur that I don’t necessarily see myself as a technological determinist, rather I believe that many factors drive our society. Things such as pop-culture, government, economy… there just seems to be too many things to take into account before we can come back to technology as the main motivator. Maybe us humans simply evolve… because we do? We change not because someone has invented a new mobile device, but rather because we crave change. Any agree? Yes? No? Meh…

The other reading we did was a collage. Super weird, basically there were patches of text that were listed down the page, of course when looking at a collage is it important to never reading in a particular direction or manner, just be random. I think since we’ve been talking about reading books lately in class, this was a good reading to relate to the idea of “when does a book begin and end?” or “When does a story begin or end?”. Same question applies here I guess, where do I begin reading and when do I stop? God knows, I like to be told what’s in my meals rather than just putting it in my mouth and taking a guess. Which is probably why I was a little uncomfortable about the concept of having a reading with no beginning or end, just our own decisions. Well…Crap.