The Digital Environment: Taking the Long View
2.Predictions about new media are often misguided
Technological Myopia:
First order
effects are overestimated.
Second order effects
are underestimated.
First order effects are changes in practice or structure that are evident in particular sites and across the system as a whole. Second order effects are the impact of these changes on patterns of social access and opportunity and social justice. Ball on Walker, 1981, "Education Policy and Social Class."
Myopic Technological Rationalism:
Attributing
excessive importance to the efficiency of the new medium.
Technological Efficiency Paradox:
Technology
offers the potential to make life easier but added complexities increase both
difficulty of use and user frustration.
Concept application articles:
Google Wants Driverless Cars, but Do We?
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VR started with gaming—but it will take over every other industry
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