The Real World Of Technology B

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we live” (Franklin, p.1) and that this house is continually changing and being renovated. There is very little human activity outside of the house, and all in habitants are affected by the “design of the house, by the division of its space, by the location of its doors and walls.” (p.1). Franklin claims that; rarely does society step outside of the house to live, when compared with generations past. The goal for leaving the house is not to enter the natural environment, because in Franklin’s terms “environment essentially means what is around us… that constructed, manufactured, built environment that is the day-in-day-out [sic] setting of much of the contemporary world of technology.” (p.89). Nature today is seen as a construct instead of as a “force or entity with its own dynamics.” (p.85). The book claims that society vies nature the same way as society views infrastructure as “something that is there to ...

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