(1) - The Instrumentalist / Utilitarian / Functionalist ViewsJacques L. Hamel, Economic Commission for Africa, undated.
(2) - The Determinist / Autonomist / Fatalist Views
(3) - The Essentialist / Substantivist / Fundamentalist Views
(4) - The Luddist / Rejectionist / Technophobic Views
(5) - The Environmentalist / Naturalist / Romantic Views
(6) - The Pre-Modernist / Traditionalist / Preservationist Views
(7) - The Constructivist / Voluntarist / Idealistic Views/"
Once about Knowledge and knowledge systems, especially knowledge applied to economic development, but since I retired branching into politics, music and whatever catches my attention.
Monday, October 30, 2006
"The Politics of Technology for an African Renaissance"
This brief paper describes "a framework for grouping various technological views into non-exclusive groupings in relation to the idea of control or power, humanity and nature, culture and development, and the idea of values and meanings. These views can perhaps be arbitrarily grouped into seven varieties, with no clear boundaries:
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