Ideas About Technology
Technicians, as we know from the arguments of Steven Shapin, were written out of visibility. Generally, technicism is the belief in the utility of technology for improving human societies. Some, such as Stephen V. Monsma, connect these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority. It did not take long to discover that wheeled wagons could be used to carry heavy loads. The ancient Sumerians used the potter's wheel and may have invented it. Further Reading ‘Technology’ only became a common word in the second half of the twentieth century. By then the damage was done, and conceptual confusion meant that the term could be used in either broad or narrow senses, sometimes embracing cultural or social components, sometimes reduced to mere tools or to means-to-ends rationality. No wonder when we talk about, say, the ‘science–technology relationship’ or technological change as a driver of history the results are so unedifying and intellectually impoverished. The branc