Technological Determinism:   technology

(inventions, etc) are the
 
 single most important force in history
 
--One technology leads to another
 
--Humans don’t control history
 
--e.g. birth control and changing views about sex:

which comes first?
 
1)--stirrup: 

Scholarly Debate

Media cause change in values:

2) Postman  (and McLuhan)

3) John Kenneth Galbraith

                 Economy:  John Kenneth Galbraith
 
                               --Planning System
 
                               ---Big Business and Big Government

Technology Pessimists

Values cause technological change:

 Lynn White Jr.

--Notes on White