Suggested Readings

Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho"), Naples Archeological Museum

Who controls technology? The topic of whether and how societies can exercise control over technology has been discussed for many decades. From Martin Heidegger’s 1954 essay “The Question Concerning Technology,” McLuhan’s 1964 “Understanding Media” and Jacques Ellul’s “The Technological Society” of the same year, to today’s Technoscience theorists, we have thinking about technology for over half a century now. Stil...