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This 3 page paper answers three questions. 1. What is meant by technological determinism and social determinism. 2. How the Open Source Software Movement reflects changes in the way society operates and how this can be applied to other areas, and 3. The relevance of systems thinking and emergent behaviour to these subjects. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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society (Cross and David, 1974). Development is pushed by technology, with a special emphasis on communications technology. Social progress is led by the discoveries and new technologies, these may range
form the past developments such as the printing press leading to social development (Eisenstein, 1980), though the changes created by mobile telephones. There are two forms of this theory, soft
and hard where the soft form is adopted, it is accepted that technology is one of many influences and that impacts on social development, the hard model is that which
states technology is the dominant impact on social development (Pacey, 1983, Cross et al, 1974). In effect this is this is the difference between a perspective that the internet MIGHT
HELP improve the quality of life, and the internet WILL help improve the quality of life. Social determinism is the opposite model, here it is believed that society will
develop independently of technology, in this model society shapes the technology rather than technology shaping society. Technology will have no use unless it is designed t be used, using funds
that originate from socially acceptable ideas, here technology is not forced upon society, but accepted and adapted by it. The model also has strong a weak forms (Cross et al,
1974). Question 2 The open source software movement may be seen in relation to the way that information is proliferated and spread. This should also be differentiated from
the free software supporters. This is also a movement that demonstrates how there has been change towards design and management. This movement1 was formed out of the desire for
a change in the way the industry was developing and has its roots in the development of UNIX and Linux (Cioffi, 2001). There was a perception of confrontational perspective of
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