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The Risky Promises and Promising Risks of New Information Technologies for…

- - - - Inquiry, communication, construction, expression.
- - - - We never use technologies to change our sorroundings without being changed ourselves, so it is a two-way relation.
  - - - Cultural and Psychological
      - Material interrelation
        
        Our bodies, our health, the physical environment are altered as well.
- - - - Computer as Panacea
        
        It places too much faith in technologies
      - Computer as tools
        
        It places too much faith in peoples' abilities
      - Computer as non-neutral tool
        
        Level headed-approach
        
        It understands balancing costs and benefits, the mix of good and bad that comes from attempts at major reform.
        
        Users should be reflective and critical about the unexpected consequences of using these technologies
        
        It is a technocratic dream because it takes the relation of means and ends itself as given.
        
        It calculates costs and benefits as a way of evaluating change.
        
        The assessment of means and ends evaluate the good and bad aspects of rhe use of new technologies individually