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Philosophy of technology

the tendency to adopt technologies without reflecting on how they reshape social life, as if sleepwalking.

In philosophy of technology, technological somnambulism refers to the tendency to adopt technologies without reflecting on how they reshape social life, as if sleepwalking. This meaning comes from Winner (1986/1988) in The Whale and the Reactor.[1]

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  1. Winner, L. (1988). The Whale and the Reactor. University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1986) https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226902098.001.0001

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