Abstract
Technology is such a pervasive element of contemporary human life that we usually are no more conscious of it than of air we breathe. Technology is nothing new. From time first proto-man started using sharp rocks for weapons or tools, technology has reflected and shaped society's ideas and institutions. What is new is dominant role of technology in modern society. If one accepts definition of technology as the institutionalization of utilitarian norms, centering on the application of rational principles to control and reordering of space, matter and human beings,' one recognizes that rise of technology is virtually synonymous with what is often termed development or modernization. Technology is application of principles of science-knowledge for its own sake-to human concerns. Because of ubiquity of technology in modern society and its long history as a force in human life most social scientists have tended to take technology for granted, dealing with it as one of many variables which affect or are affected by human behavior, but not as
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