{"id":489,"date":"2009-09-15T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T05:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/web-2-0\/"},"modified":"2009-09-17T13:49:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T20:49:46","slug":"web-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/2009\/09\/15\/web-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological System&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rod_monkey\/1507843216\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2025\/1507843216_44df223631.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rod_monkey\/1507843216\/\">Web 2.0<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rod_monkey\/\">Rod Monkey<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Technology is a <em>system<\/em>. It entails far more than its individual material components. Technology involves organization, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset.&#8221; (Franklin, p. 2-3)<\/p>\n<p>Technology is more commonly perceived as any human-made object that does not occur naturally in nature, but often imitates more naturally occurring phenomena, and are often used to aid us in some fashion.<\/p>\n<p>However, technology is ecological in that it doesn&#8217;t just add or subtract; as Postman puts it, &#8220;it changes everything&#8221; (Postman, 1992, p. 18). The printing press revolutionized our access to knowledge. Internet has changed our communications patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, technology is a system, inextricably linked to human life.<\/p>\n<p>Hermia<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p>Franklin, U. (1999). The Real World of Technology. Toronto: Anansi.<\/p>\n<p>Postman, N. (1992). Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology. New York: Vintage Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web 2.0, originally uploaded by Rod Monkey. &#8220;Technology is a system. It entails far more than its individual material components. Technology involves organization, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset.&#8221; (Franklin, p. 2-3) Technology is more commonly perceived as any human-made object that does not occur naturally in nature, but often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[1518,5352,6808,5272],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ecology","tag-system","tag-technology","tag-technology-defined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec540sept09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}