The humanities fallacy: understanding humans leads to understanding of things humans do, like science and engineering (1/2)
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Alternative is technical determinism: the fallacy that technical constraints alone determine behavior of blended human-thing systems.
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In short term tech determinism tends false, but in long term it tends true. Human determinism is opposite.
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Good humanities tries to understand things humans do by understanding humans and things, i.e. Latour’s sociology of science.


