Rob Wiblin
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Um and it doesn't, and it's not obvious that anything that any particular individual did was able to was able to shift.
Yeah.
On the other hand,
Technology, at least so far, doesn't have its own agency.
It does seem like in fact it's humans doing all of the actions that are that are producing these outcomes.
And couldn't they, in principle, if they really hated what was happening, try to try to shift it?
I mean, we we we feel like we have agency right now over how society goes, or we feel that we at least have some some agency.
Um so how do you how do you reconcile this macro picture where it seems like things, uh humans don't have that much control over technology, um, at least historically, um, with with the micro picture where we feel
Like we like we do now.
Is am I understanding it right?
In this paper, it seemed like the constructivists in in in in their reaction to this determinism
We're really sticking out a relatively extreme opposing position where they were almost suggesting that, you know, it's always human responsibility and people always have choice over what technologies they adopt and and what form it takes.
I'm am I understanding that right?
Were the constructivists motivated by a sense of moral outrage, maybe that people that they saw people perhaps adopting technologies that were socially detrimental?
And those those folks might then excuse it saying, Well, we have no choice.
We have to do this because for you know competitive reasons or it's gonna happen anyway.
There's nothing one can do.
Uh and the constructivists were kind of frustrated by this and wanted to say, No, like no, you're responsible, you're doing it.
So uh so you do have agency here.
Yeah.
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