Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

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Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism By Merritt Roe Smith, Leo Marx
Publisher: The M I T Press 1994 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0262691671 , 0262193477 | PDF | 8 MB




These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms? Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that \"the hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist,\" and a classic article by Robert Heilbroner (reprinted here) renewed the debate within the context of the history of technology. This book clarifies the debate and carries it forward. Marx's

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