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Technology in Information Society The case of Portugal Álvaro Jorge Albuquerque Informação e Sociedade Mestrado em Gestão de Informação 2003 FEUP (Lecturer: Dr. David Allen) (Body Wordcount: 2837) Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Abstract 2 Background 3 Technology 3 Philosophies of Technology [1] 4 Instrumentalism 4 Social Determinism 5 Technological Determinism 6 Technology in action 7 Portuguese Information Society 8 Introduction 8 View of Information Society 8 Current state 10 Values 11 Information Society for all 11 Open Government, Quality and Efficiency on Public Services 11 Learning and Available Knowledge on Information Society 11 Richness of Balanced Opportunities for Commerce 12 Rich Contents 12 Security, Protection and Rights of Individuals 12 Conclusions 12 Reference Notes 13 References 14 Abstract "...technology must never be accepted as part of the natural order of things, that every technology- from an IQ test to an automobile to a television set to a computer - is a product of a particular economic and political context and carries with it a programme, an agenda, and a philosophy that may or may not be life enhancing and that therefore requires scrutiny, criticism and control." (Neil Postman 1992:185) I am supposed to discuss this sentence having in mind the...

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