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Do technical inventions determine social transformations?
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Do technical inventions determine social transformations? Throughout human history there have been many technical inventions and there have been many social transformations. How are these two parts of human history linked? Are they inextricably joined in their evolution? Or can they evolve and develop separately from one another? Do, as this question poses, technical inventions ascertain, settle or be the decisive factor in considerable social change? The determinate nature of this question cannot produce a satisfactory answer. If we were to answer yes to this question it would imply that all technical inventions, no matter where they arise, result in a social transformation. This, I will argue, is clearly not the case. Many inventions, in fact most inventions, never play any significant role in the social structure they are introduced into. If we answer the question with a negative this, again incorrectly, implies that every technical invention has no influence...
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