The main agenda of my study is to look into the correlation between labour and technology. In this article, the author mainly focuses on the importance of technological determinism and how it becomes a mistake to equate determinism with progress.
I. The normative technological determinism of Bimber, Misa and Hughes (). Equivalent to the idea of autonomous technology by Langdon Winer, "technology that has grown so big and so complex that it is no longer amenable to social control".
II. The idea of technological momentum: A more mature understanding of the interplay between technology and society, gives a viable solution to understanding the labour process and market, where some are highly automated, some are complemented and yet some are not touched by 'modern' computational technology. According to the author, "technological momentum" as "a concept that can be located somewhere between the poles of technical determinism and social constructivism".
III. Conceptualising the dialectical relationship of social shaping of technology and technological shaping of society. This gives a greater understanding of the impact of automation and upcoming trends or changes happening due to the interplay of labour and technological development.
