Mega machine - technology

Mega machine - Technology & Society

The used of technology is often disguised (ex: bob marley rolling paper, downloading platform, by saying, please do it legally, pay for it...)
(Electronicochemical) vibrator:
2 different aspects:
- Misunderstanding
- Hysteria
- Orgasm (so social camouflage)
- Medical practice
- Social Camouflage
- Official (medical)
- Private (sexual)
Technology is kind of «Piggybacking» (??)
Manual
Hydro (2000s) --> But for example Spa exist for centuries
(Doctor could say, I will not do it manualy now but with hydro (technology), so he use an old good technology (water, spa...) to produce a new one)
Electro (1885)(As the chatanooga Vibrator, designed for doctors, looks like medical used)
- chocking people with electricity for medecin, can chock but still use
- Electrical technology, changed «eye-readable» to «non eye-readable» for example, when your laptop in not working, you can’t fix it by yourself, you don’t «see» what happened
Light Therapy (electrical technology)
Electro-mechanical
Violet ray
X-Ray (Electrical technology)
Permit to look inside you, thing you couldn’t do before (doctors had to wait you to death, to open you and see)
Technology user, change ! (Ex: Doctors at the beginning, personal use after)
And technology is shaped of what we want, (beauty...)
- Science, affect Technology, technology affect society - Classical frame of Technology &
Society
They have effect on each other

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The Megamachine - Mumford
C.H.M
- Study group
- Unions
- Corp. Management
- Royal Megamachine
The first magamachine, is Pyramids.
(Humans together are a machine. Pyramids, World War II (Nazi).. These are megamachine, social organisation.
Society, structured, organized, of thousands, or million people
- Power is Secrecy

Megamachine /
ATOMBOMB

Expected

Unexpected

Positive

Pyramid / End of war, fast

«City» (By the construction of pyramid at a certain place, they have to leave there, so logistic for houses, food...) - Big thinking / Nuclear power
(electricity)

Negative

Death (Hard Job...) / Death, radiation Boredom (Working all day long, with sun...) / proliforation, nuclear winter

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In this tableau, you can put instead of «Megamachine, every technology
For example with Atomic bomb...
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(Bureaucracy, is an
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Feenberg - 10 paradoxes
Paradox 1
We are inseparable of tools we make (technology) as birds can’t be separate from their wings Make people use technology in other country is much more easier than trying to change attitude, food etc.
BUT controversy to this universality, you need to make some change (ex: for laptop, the keyboard per country...).
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Paradox 2
Where technology come from ? We often forget where it come from...
(Shoes, we don’t think it’s technology, where is it from ?? But it is)