As a result of “manifest social complexity” and “concealed electronic complexity,” “the plight of members of the technological society can be compared to that of a newborn child …” yet in contemporary technological civilization people “are less fortunate than children” for they “never escape a fundamental bewilderment in the face of the complex world that their senses report.”
On Technology and Human Agency | | Ben BrucatoBen Brucato
Good summary of the positions of a number of thinkers who seem at odds with Latour on the subject of human agency and technology but as it turns out really aren’t.
