Does Technology Drive History?

Does Technology Drive History?

The Dilemma of Technological Determinism

by Merritt Roe Smith, Leo Marx

280 pages· 1994· ISBN 9780262691673
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These 13 essays explore to what extent, and by what means, a society's technology determines its political, social, economic and cultural forms. Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism and this book clarifies the debate and carries it forward.

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