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• Steve Bruno
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Technological Determinism

We often will say "it's inevitable, it was bound to happen eventually...", or "That's just the way things are going..."

When the wheel was first invented/discovered, was it just a matter of time before the first transportation device was created?

Here is an excerpt taken from the Technological Determinism Wikipedia page:

"Most interpretations of technological determinism share two general ideas:
that the development of technology itself follows a predictable, traceable path largely beyond cultural or political influence, and that technology n turn has "effects" on societies that are inherent, rather than socially conditioned or produced because that society organizes itself to support and further develop a technology once it has been introduced."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism


I would like to know which side you are on with this debate. Is there a destination to this all that is inevitable, or will we use technology to serve our purposes?