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  1. Sep 2016
    1. “not involved as a professional (engineer, programmer, designer, etc.) or decision-maker in the industrial, commercial or service sectors developing computer-networking technology.”

      Everyday users are the ones who shape technology and mobilize the advancement of social technology.

    1. Extreme 'Whorfianism' is as heavily criticized as extreme technological determinism, but moderate Whorfianism is fairly widely accepted by scholars. Moderate Whorfians argue that the ways in which we use language may have some influence on our thinking and perception, but they stress a two-way relationship between thought and language and also the importance of social context.

      I think it is a very interesting analysis that language plays a part in the way we think and perceive things but can be very flawed to a certain extent.