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Technology & Society

Thinkers and essays gathered around this school of thought.

8Thinkers
1Thoughts
19Major Works
11Archive Entries
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Shoshana Zuboff

Shows how digital platforms turn behavior into prediction, profit, and new forms of power.

“Surveillance capitalism must be examined, not inherited.”
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1895–1990

Lewis Mumford

Asks whether technical systems serve human life or absorb it into scale and control.

History · Political Philosophy · Technology & Society
1951–present

Shoshana Zuboff

Shows how digital platforms turn behavior into prediction, profit, and new forms of power.

Economics · Political Philosophy · Social Theory
1960–present

Jaron Lanier

Defends human creativity and dignity against flattening by digital platforms.

Computing · Ethics · Social Theory
1955–present

Tim Berners-Lee

Treats the web as a public architecture whose openness and ethics must be defended.

Computing · Ethics · Science
1911–1980

Marshall McLuhan

Shows how media reshape perception and society before content is even considered.

Cultural Studies · Language & Meaning · Social Theory
1931–2003

Neil Postman

Warns that technologies shape what a culture can pay attention to and take seriously.

Cultural Studies · Education · Ethics
1890–1974

Vannevar Bush

Imagines tools for associative knowledge and institutions that support scientific discovery.

Computing · Public Policy · Science
1894–1964

Norbert Wiener

Explores feedback, control, communication, and the ethical consequences of automation.

Computing · Ethics · Mathematics
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