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This 10 page paper argues that technology is a way of life, but technology has changed the way people live, sometimes not for the better. David Noble's ideas about technology are examined. It is argued that technology is generally good, opposing Noble's arguments. Some quotes from Noble are provided. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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and so on. In fact, there is little reason to leave ones abode or to speak to a neighbor face to face. Socialization has changed as a result of technology.
People do not speak to one another face to face quite as much anymore and even classrooms have become automated. Many universities are online now, and for some like David
Noble, that is the last straw. In fact, there is a movement against technology, but this is nothing new. Luddism is something that came about years ago and was found
to be a "response to deep-seated changes in ways of life, changes in which technology was undeniably implicated, but which were about much more than mere technical matters" (Robins &
Webster, 1999, p. 7). Luddism was essentially a response to the industrial revolution. That was during the nineteenth century. Today, people protest by refusing to wear digital watches, and to
regress to a "small is better" mentality. Some people do choose to live a simple life. They try to create sustainable societies, but on a smaller level, many simply choose
to recycle or go camping. Today, the secretary is obsolete because executives write their own memorandums, which are now just referred to as email. This all saves time. Long
gone are the two necessary carbon copies that the typists painstakingly created and filed and physically mailed. Today, a few seconds and the touch of a button is all that
is necessary to effect a correspondence. What is wrong with that? According to David Noble, there is a lot wrong with what people consider progress. In his groundbreaking book Progress
Without People, Noble (1995) looks at the changes that the world is undergoing in todays age, and sees it as something that is not much different from years ago when
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