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Technology, Communication, Power, Society, and Change

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Many people in the modern and postmodern worlds are involved with technology in one way or the other. Some love it and can’t wait to use the latest gadgets; others profess to hate technology and strive to live their lives free of it, while most simply take the increasingly ubiquitous nature of evermore sophisticated technology as somehow given, inevitable, unproblematic, and natural. Moreover, there is a vast and growing cache of academic literature about the interrelationship between technologies, individuals, societies and environments.

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    In our lengthy discussion of various aspects of “technology” in this chapter, we make many distinctions. One distinction is between hardware, software, and orgware. The latter term, coined by the cyberneticist G. M. Dobrov in 1979, refers to the people and institutions (ORGanizations) needed to make the hardware and software of technology function. We explain the concept in detail later in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Political Science, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    James A. Dator, John A. Sweeney & Aubrey M. Yee

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Dator, J.A., Sweeney, J.A., Yee, A.M. (2015). Technology, Communication, Power, Society, and Change. In: Mutative Media. Lecture Notes in Social Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07809-0_1

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