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...n Dewey]]. [[William Ogburn]] was also known for his radical technological determinism and his theory on [[cultural lag]]. ...Robert Heilbroner]], is that technology, by way of its machines, can cause historical change by changing the material conditions of human existence.<ref>{{Cite b ...

|chapter=Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel: Notes toward a Historical Poetics Mikhail Bakhtin's ''chronotope'', or ''time-space'' ([[Determinism|deterministic]]) makes outside-the-logosphere ([[Intelligibility (communica ...

...shaping technological artifacts. To challenge the so-called "technological determinism", today's theories of technological change emphasize the scope of the need * [[Systems theory]] considers the historical development of technology and media with an emphasis on inertia and heterog ...

...y is embedded in its social context. SCOT is a response to [[technological determinism]] and is sometimes known as '''technological constructivism'''. ...rk theory]] (a branch of the [[sociology of science and technology]]) and historical analysis of sociotechnical systems, such as the work of historian [[Thomas ...

...inventions, especially those of new forms of transportation. He gives the historical example of the [[bicycle]], which he suggests was historically associated w ...deas of [[Marshall McLuhan]] (whom he sees as being overly [[Technological determinism|technologically determinist]]), and of the French [[sociologist]] [[Pierre ...

...|last1=Ghys|first1=Tuur|title=Technology Trees: Freedom and Determinism in Historical Strategy Games|url=http://gamestudies.org/1201/articles/tuur_ghys|website=g ...

...ion and demonstrated how various discoveries, scientific achievements, and historical world events were built from one another successively in an interconnected * {{annotated link|Technological determinism}} ...

...as does not always come easy: casual models, cognitive effort and creeping determinism. ''Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,'' 1 ...

...respect, one can see information science as a response to [[technological determinism]], the belief that technology "develops by its own laws, that it realizes i | title=Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems: Technological Determinism ...

...who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny".<ref>{{cite book ...chnology. Social technologies also relate to the theory of [[technological determinism]], which states that "technology has universal effects on social processes. ...

...es and peoples of [[Africa]] and the [[African diaspora]] within their own historical, cultural, and sociological contexts.<ref name="Monteiro-Ferreira">{{cite j ...nor those rooted in matters of color of the skin, biology, or [[biological determinism]]; this means that some claims to Afrocentricity are not strictly part of t ...

...hnologies as agents of social and cultural change, such as [[technological determinism]] or [[Imaginary (sociology)#Media imaginary|media imaginaries]].<ref>{{Cit ...epublicanism|republicans]] often embraced techno-utopianism. [[Radicalism (historical)|Radicals]] like [[Joseph Priestley]] pursued scientific investigation whil ...

...irst=Richard |title=Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus |publisher=Prometheus Books |date=2012 |page=26-29 |isbn=978161614559 * [[Etymological fallacy]] – assuming that the original or historical meaning of a word or phrase is necessarily similar to its actual present-da ...

...creation, development, and consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and social contexts.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hackett |first1=Edwa ...context. Starting in the 1960s, some historians questioned [[technological determinism]], a doctrine that can induce public passivity to technologic and scientifi ...

...fact that the concept itself has changed along with the change of various historical epochs, and to find such a definition, it is necessary to find standard fea ...ate of a system based on knowledge gathered during its past and present. [[Determinism]] is a philosophical theory holding that causal determination can predict a ...

...Religion and Culture |location=New York}}</ref>) is a [[History by period|historical period]] that began in the mid-20th century. It is characterized by a rapid ...org/web/20190602195850/https://www.signiant.com/articles/file-transfer/the-historical-growth-of-data-why-we-need-a-faster-transfer-solution-for-large-data-sets/ ...

===Historical framing of technology – four main periods=== ...tial to destroy how people live ([[Technological determinism|Technological Determinism]]). Heidegger warned people that technology was dangerous in that it exerte ...

...006"/> In a 2021 article, Modis pointed out that no milestones – breaks in historical perspective comparable in importance to the Internet, DNA, the transistor, ...ef> Furthermore: "The reason to believe in human agency over technological determinism is that you can then have an economy where people earn their own way and in ...

...quest for [[immortality]] in the ''[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]'', as well as in historical quests for the [[Fountain of Youth]], the [[Elixir of Life]], and other eff ...l parallels existed between [[Millenarianism|Millenarian]] religions and [[Historical materialism|Communist doctrines]].<ref name="Dublin 1992"/> ...

...it}}</ref> Thus, he refers to the medium as an "interactor" to avoid this determinism. Alternatively, [[Daniel Dennett]] suggests that the medium and the idea ar ...systems, history can be reduced to 'evolution.' ... We conclude that while historical phenomena can always be modeled selectionistically, selectionist explanatio ...