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INTRODUCTION The term 'Technological Determinism' was first coined by Thorstein Veblen, an American economist and sociologist who lived from 1857 to 1929. Broken down into its constituents, "technology" means the practical application of science to commerce or industry, whilst "determinism" refers to a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will. Theories related to determinism, for example: linguistic, genetic, biological and environmental determinism, have been around for a few centuries. But it was until the Industrial Revolution that scholars and sociologists started noticing the implications of technology on society. Technological Determinism has been often dismissed in the past, but in the society of the present, it has a gained newfound accreditation with the introduction of modern technology. (Chandler, 1995) Nowadays, the term is used to refer to the common assumption that new technologies are the primary cause of: *...

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