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