Cultural visions of technology. Paradoxes of panoptic and interactive perspectives and methods

Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen

doi:10.1007/s00146-012-0408-0

Cultural visions of technology. Paradoxes of panoptic and interactive perspectives and methods

Lauge Baungaard Rasmussen

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The essential premise of the human-centered technology paradigm was clearly formulated by Howard Rosenbrock in the 1970s: technology should enrich rather than impoverish people’s work and life conditions. The increasing influence of technology in modern societies has been seen by some as offering great promise for the future, but by others as creating the electronic surveillance and/or manipulation of human genes, minds and beliefs. This paper approaches technological worlds as cultural visions in order to discuss and reflect the paradoxical process of viewing technology as part of a hope for a more sustainable and human-centered future as well as part of an apocalypse of surveillance, violence and catastrophes.

Original language	English
Journal	A I & Society
Volume	28
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	177-188
ISSN	0951-5666
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-012-0408-0
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

Interactive vision
Human-centered technology
Paradoxical process
Hope
Panoptical vision
Control technology
Apocalypse
Technology worlds

UN SDGs

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Cultural visions of technology. Paradoxes of panoptic and interactive perspectives and methods

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