Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values; thus rendering technological progress a fundamentally anti-democratic force.
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Technological determinism often talked about the struggle between technology and ceremonial structure.
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Technological determinism seeks to show technical developments, media, or technology as a whole, as the key mover in history and social change.
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Strict adherents to technological determinism do not believe the influence of technology differs based on how much a technology is or can be used.
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Technological determinism has been summarized as 'The belief in technology as a key governing force in society.
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Technological determinism has been defined as an approach that identifies technology, or technological advances, as the central causal element in processes of social change.
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Soft Technological determinism, as the name suggests, is a more passive view of the way technology interacts with socio-political situations.
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Skepticism about technological determinism emerged alongside increased pessimism about techno-science in the mid-20th century, in particular around the use of nuclear energy in the production of nuclear weapons, Nazi human experimentation during World War II, and the problems of economic development in the Third World.
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In opposition to technological determinism are those who subscribe to the belief of social determinism and postmodernism.
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Technological determinism asserts that this particular development is attributable to the use of new technologies of literacy to communicate thoughts which could previously only be verbalized.
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Technological determinism furthers this argument by claiming that writing is purely context dependent as it is a "secondary modelling system".
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Media determinism is a form of technological determinism, a philosophical and sociological position which posits the power of the media to impact society.
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Media Technological determinism is a form of the popular dominant theory of the relationship between technology and society.
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