Understand the impact of technology
The argument is that technology starts out with a purpose, and this purpose either remains, influencing organizations, or it is subject to change driven by society. However the technologies purpose is is input by the producer, than it could be subject to the producers social characteristic, which are shapes by his socio-politico-economic sphere of environment. The impact that technology has on an organization depends on how the managers wanted to employ that particular technology. Technological determinism means that organizations using technology must adapt to the technology employed. This implies that social, political and economic factors, which technological determinism does not acknowledge, play an important role in influencing what is meant by technologies and how it is used. The social influences on the nature of technology are that given an art fact, relevant social groups, which use the art fact, are identified. The one technology can......
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