Think once again about the technologies you considered in Exercise 1. Now try to explain those…

Think once again about the technologies you considered in Exercise 1. Now try to explain those technological developments according to the theories of Lewis Mumford, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul and William Barrett, Jurgen Habermas, and Edward Hall

EXERCISE 1

Think of communication and information technologies introduced in your lifetime. A partial list might include personal computers, laptop computers, notepad computers, e-book readers, e-mail, instant messaging, web chat rooms, streaming audio and video, dial-up Internet access, highspeed Internet access, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Vista, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, cell phones, smartphones, Palm Pilots, Blackberrys, blogging, texting, tweeting, satellite radio, satellite TV, high-definition TV, flatscreen TV, TiVo, CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, Blu-ray, Netflix, Redbox, Xbox, PlayStation. Perhaps you can remember the first time you used some of these technologies. Think about some that have impacted your life and ask yourself, How does each technology reflect the values of our society? How has each shaped the way that our society thinks about the world?