i. The theory of technological drama: It is a discourse of technological "statements" and "counterstatements". There are three processes, technological regularization, technological adjustment, and technological reconstitution involved in this discourse.
ii. The literature on socio-technical systems: The socio-technical systems understanding is considered as a more inclusive method and tool. The roots of this can be found in the writings of Thomas Hughes. The author quotes Hughes (45) who "shows how Edison sought to supply electric lighting at a price competitive with natural gas (economic), to obtain the support of key politicians (political), to cut down the cost of transmitting power (technical), and to find a bulb filament of sufficiently high resistance (scientific)".
iii. History of artefacts and technology: The author contests the idea of necessity as the meaning and logic behind any artefact we decode. He argues that it’s false to understand that there is a unilinear progression of simple to complex tools and evolution of technologies. It is our perception around an antique tool, that we transates as its usage. He substantiates this by arguing that "an enormous amount of human knowledge about building socio-technical systems has been utterly and irretrievably lost" in the history. He also pleads that according to the sociotechnical systems model, no such thing as a "traditional society" exists. Every human society is a world in the process of becoming, in which people are engaged in the active technological elaboration, appropriation, and modification of artefacts as the means of coming to know themselves and of coordinating labour to sustain their lives".
