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Please read Chapter One of Society and Technological Change: The Nature of Technology.

Once complete, please reflect upon, and craft a response to the following:

Thinking about the nature of technology, do you find that technology is inherently equal or fair? Does technology, and its uses, effect individuals equally? Is technology, or can it be, gendered? It technology independent any individual or society?

Please allow for sufficient time in reflecting upon these questions. Craft your response and provide narratives to support.

These discussions will begin the process of thinking and reflecting upon technology in both a critical and analytical manner. Begin to look beyond the ideas of good vs evil, right vs wrong, and begin to consider the construct and nature, the system and process, of technology.

Text Book : Volti, Rudi. Society and Technological Change, 8th ed. Worth (2017)

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Technology is very important in today's life in every scenario. Technology is implemented in all the ways in the modern lifestyle to improve our living, communication and achieve a faster growth towards progress. There are various natures of technologies, and thinking about them technology is inherently not equal or fair to all the classes or genres of people living in the society. For example, an IT professional or software developer may be the most exposed to technologies and thus his live should be much better than a homeless man whose life isn't at all much touched by technology. Thus, no, technology is not inherently equal or fair to all the people of the society.

No, technology, and its uses, effect individuals differently for different people. As we mentioned that technologies used by people are different and vary from people to people, their class and their income. Thus, the effect of technologies on individuals are also different for different people. Technology can be gendered also, there are some devices which lean towards feminist more and there are such technologies which are gender specific to usage of men or women and not both. Thus, yes, some technologies are gender specific. Lastly, no, technology is not independent of any individual or society. Just like individuals are dependent on the society, technologies are also dependent on the society and cannot be termed as independent totally. While the independence is there to much greater extent but as per the society we live in and as discussed above, the level of exposure to technologies vary and thus technology is dependent on individual or society.

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