Lelia Green explains that, "When technology was perceived as being outside society, it made sense to talk about technology as neutral".
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According to Lelia Green, if one believes technology is neutral, one would disregard the cultural and social conditions that technology has produced (Green, 2001).
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When "Technology is implicated in social processes, there is nothing neutral about society" (Lelia Green).
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Media and cultural studies theorist Brian Winston, in response to technological determinism, developed a model for the emergence of new technologies which is centered on the Law of the suppression of radical potential.
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