do you agree or disagree 50 words

1.         Below is my interpretation of three sentences of relation to Marx’s argument that struck me as important to my understanding of technology.   “Technology as such, makes nothing happen.”  This statement means, to my understanding - that it takes people to make things happen. Technology is used by people. For example machinery is used by people.  It takes people to start the machines, move the machines, and most importantly program the machines.    “Consider, once again, automotive technology.”  Automotive technology is evolutionary. We can see how the automotive industry has evolved over many years. We can see the importance of how much technology was instrumental in the growth of the auto world. The economy has been transformed by prosperity in the automobile world due to technology, which aided in mass production, not to mention job creation for so many. Machine tool makers and the steel industry flourish and that created jobs for people also.     Reference:   Marx, Leo. “Http://Ljournal.ru/Wp-Content/Uploads/2016/08/d-2016-154.Pdf.” Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept”, 2016, doi:10.18411/d-2016-154.

2. “They believed that innovations in the mechanic arts could be relied upon, in the long run, to result in progress and prosperity for all” p.566   In this sentence, Marx is pointing to the idea that technology could help the deplorable conditions in factories.  The machines would not only be more efficient which would increase revenue, but they would also alleviate some of the dangers for the workers.  The elite viewed this new machinery as a way to spread societal progression.  Marx discussed Mill’s observation “…that the present was an improvement on the past,”      “My assumption is that those changes, whatever they were, created a semantic - indeed, a conceptual - void, which is to say, an awareness of certain novel developments in society and culture for which no adequate name had yet become available.” p. 563   In this sentence, Marx is explaining the reason the word, ‘technology’ is in our vocabulary today.  We need the word to explain the changes within our society and culture.  Before Marx makes this statement in his essay, he points out that authors such as Tocqueville created new words and phrases as a way to make his writing relevant and as a way to reflect societal changes.      “As late as 1880-81, for example, Arnold Toynbee delivered his influential lectures on the Industrial Revolution - a topic that would seem in retrospect to have made references to technology unavoidable - yet he relied exclusively on the long-established lexicon featuring such terms as mechanical discoveries, improvements, and inventions.” p. 570   This quote points to the fact that just because someone coins a phrase does not necessarily mean that it is going to catch on with the main stream.  Marx explains that the word technology did not become widely used until 1900!  Today we see the word technology everywhere, it is almost a generic turn used to describe everything from smart phones and computers to Facebook and Candy Crush.      MARX, LEO. “Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept.” Technology and Culture, vol. 51, no. 3, 2010, pp. 561–577. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40927986.

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1.  We learned about James Watt and the steam engine, Eli Whitney and the cotton gin, and about other great inventors and their inventions.  This sentence helped me to see how technology has grown and keeps growing. We started with the invention of the steam engine and the cotton gin, but we have moved to the cell phone which as changed history just as much as transportation technology. When you think of the steam engine, you think about how technology keeps moving.  2. Such keywords often serve as markers, or chronological sign-posts, of subtle, virtually unremarked, yet ultimately far-reaching changes in culture and society.  Technology is a definite marker in history. It is subtle but leaves a distinct change in the way we live, how we do business, and how to handle simple daily tasks.  3. The popular belief in technology as a -if not the -primary force shaping, the future is matched by our increasing reliance on instrumental standards of judgment, and a corresponding neglect of moral and political standards, in making judgements about the direction of society.  For me, this sentence caught my attention because it says so much about the technology we know as social media. We start to rely on it as a necessary way of communication. Instead of having face to face conversations technology has caused communicate via emails, text messaging or direct messaging. We judge people by their posts, and it has led society a direction that can cause significant change or damage us for life.