Sclove "I'D Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture"

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"I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture" "I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture" Mike Cummings Grantham University "I'd Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture" Knowledge and invention or technological innovation has benefited and changed the world dramatically. In Richard Sclove’s article, “I’d Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture”, he argues that society should do more to understand society’s relationship with technology and the influence technology has on society. The development of technology has had and will continue to have intended and unintended effects in society, it changes the way people live in numerous ways with good and bad consequences. Sclove believes that technology is potent in many ways, or polypotent. As we study history, we can see that Sclove is accurate in his description and that technology can invade society in ways that were never imagined. Technology can have effects in how we communicate, socialize, enforce laws, produce anything, influence politics and even change something as natural as sleep. Yes, I do agree with Sclove’s idea that technology is polypotent. The year 1984 was the year I graduated high school and was the first year that I touched what we now refer to as a personal computer (PC). Computer Science was offered for the first time in my school and there were only about 30 units in a school of 2500 students. At that time it was a box attached to a monitor that looked like a TV. The screen was dark with green characters. Since then, something that was just being introduced in society, beyond businesses, has totally changed how society operates. In our house we have five different PC systems. If you include our cell phones we have eight. These systems, along with synergistic technologies like networking, imaging and printing have changed the

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