Technology and politics
toward artificial history?
pp. 3-14
in: Carl Mitcham (ed), Philosophy of technology in Spanish speaking countries, Berlin, Springer, 1993Abstract
With any attempt to understand the relationship between technology and politics we tend to think in terms of external effects or impacts. The same usually applies when we deal with the role and historical significance of new inventions. This attitude, however, ignores an internal relationship between technology and politics.