First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
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First Law: “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.”
Historians of technology often quote Kranzberg’s First Law (formulated by Melvin Kranzberg in a seminal essay in 1986): ‘Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.’
from Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
Margaret Leigh added
- Technologies shape and are shaped by society. They are neither the problem nor the solution.
andrea and added
- Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
from Free Culture | LESSIG by Lawrence Lessig
sari added