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Essay heading: The Whale and the Reactor
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Yet it is important not simply to see tech
as the "cause" of all world "effects." Rather, "as technologies are being built and put to use, significant
alterations in patterns of human activity and human institutions are already taking place" (11). All the
same, tech developments are absorbed into the ever mutating process of human activity so that they
some to be taken for granted and are integrated into our view of what is natural and/or inherent in the
world--they become "second nature," as Winner, taking after Wittgenstein, terms it, they become part
of our "forms of life" (11)... displayed 300 characters
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He reviews the ideas
of Kropotikin, Morris Hayes, Lillienthal, Boorstein and Mumford on his way to answering his question.
For example, Hayes states that "deployment of nuclear power facilities must lead society toward
authoritarianism" because of safety concerns (19-20). W believes "that technical systems of various
kinds are deeply interwoven in the conditions of modern politics [and further, that the] physical
arrangements of industrial production, warfare, communications, and the like have fundamentally
changed the exercise of power and the experience of citizenship" (20)... displayed next 300 characters
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