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Technology and History: "Kranzberg's Laws"

Technology and Culture (Society for the History of Technology) · Technology and Culture 27(3), July 1986, pp. 544–560

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    Technologies do not enter society neutrally: their effects depend on the surrounding arrangements, and technical designs can embody or require particular distributions of power.

    Locator: Kranzberg's First Law, opening of the article; Winner, sections 'Technical Arrangements and Social Order' and 'Inherently Political Technologies'