Technology and Society Wajcman (2002) Term Paper

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The loss of letter writing as a feature of regular human interaction is a subtle incremental change.

When sufficient changes accumulate, increasing cultural distortion leads the society toward dysfunctionality or a new state of equilibrium via cultural revitalization. One example of a revitalization movement (still underway) is feminism. Feminism arose in the West because females were given a taste of economic freedom during WWII when they successfully filled the heavy manufacturing jobs formerly occupied almost exclusively by males. What made their success possible in the assembly line? Machine tools intended to amplify a man's strength amplified a woman's strength to the same level. Now that females have thoroughly diffused through the workforce, the re-definition of "feminine" is influencing the direction that the commercial exploitation of science is taking.

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Technology influenced society, and society has responded by influencing technology.

The fact is, people have needs and technology tries to fill them. Once people (as consumers) have been exposed to industry's proffered fulfillment of their needs, they either respond favorably or unfavorably and this response further influence's industries' next attempt. This happens on a large scale as well as an individual scale. A person's exposure to technology changes the person and influences their subsequent behavior and interaction with more technology......

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