Technologies in Decline
Technologies in Decline The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting…
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Technologies in Decline
The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with 'undesirable' technology.Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel. This innovation bias reflects how in the last centuries modern societies have embraced technology as a vehicle of progress. Thus far, the dominant interest in historical, economic, sociological, and political studies of technology has been to understand how novelty emerges, how innovation can open up new opportunities and how such processes may be supported.
Dealing with technologies in decline is an important challenge or our times, as socio-technical systems are It is timely, however, to broaden the social study of technology and society: next to considering the rise of technologies, their fall should be addressed, too.