Slack & Wise reading 2: 6. What “unintended effects” (Slack & Wise, 2007, 47) do we experience with our technologies?

Slack & Wise reading 2: 5. What is technological determinism? What is cultural determinism? Provide an example of technological determinism or cultural determinism that you have seen in your daily life.

Slack & Wise reading 2: 4. What do Slack and Wise (2007) mean by the statement, “All technologies are widely understood as being significant in terms of the effects that they have, or in terms of being effects themselves” (42)?

Slack & Wise reading 2: 3. What technologies do we believe to be convenient but we choose not to use and why?

Slack & Wise reading 2: 2. How does our life change when we incorporate particular technologies? What do we gain and lose? (provide an example). Is the change always concerning space and time as suggested by Slack & Wise (2007)?

Slack & Wise Reading 2: 1. According to Slack & Wise (2007), what is convenience? Do you agree/disagree/other with their definition? What technologies offer you a sense of convenience in your life?

Slack & Wise book

For those who did not purchase their Slack & Wise book, there is a copy of it in the library reserved for this class.

10. According to Slack and Wise (2007), what is the role of the story in technological culture?

9. What is the “digital sublime” (18)?

8. How do Slack and Wise (2007) clarify evolution as it is connected with technology?