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Does Technological Change Shape Historical Change?

Musings on Technological Determinism, Ontological Design, and the Making of History

In the opening passage of Do Machines Make History (1967), Robert Heilbroner argues that technology has a direct bearing on the human drama of history—but it does not make all of history. The challenge he identifies is whether something…