Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology, a Metaphor, and a Story (2011)

In 1985, he delivered the presidential address at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology in which he explained what had already come to be known as Kranzberg’s Laws — “a series of truisms,” according to Kranzberg, “deriving from a longtime immersion in the study of the development of technology and its interactions with sociocultural change.” This view, which he associated with Jacques Ellul and Langdon Winner, yielded the philosophical doctrine of technological determinism, “namely, that technology is the prime factor in shaping our life-styles, values, institutions, and other elements of our society.” Fourth Law: Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.

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