Engineering perspective of technology | Humanities perspective of technology |
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Technology consists of: | Technology can be viewed as: |
 • A distinct body of knowledge |  • More than a sum of tools, instruments, artifacts, processes, and systems |
 • An activity or a way of doing |  • Influences the structure of the cultural/ social order regardless of its user intentions |
 • Design, engineering, production, and research procedures |  • Serving human values and influence value formation |
 • Physical tools, instruments, and artifacts |  • Autonomous social and economic forces that often override traditional and competing values |
 • Organized integrated systems and organizations that are used to create, produce, and use technology |  • Capable of unanticipated positive as well as destructive social and economic consequences |