Sentence examples for technological artifact from inspiring English sources
With "Working on My Novel," there's a comparable sort of pathos, which accumulates through the reading experience and arises from a similar repurposing of a preëxisting technological artifact.
As a technological artifact, the ball is incredible.
Apple's iTunes software is to digital music what Edison's Pearl Street electric station was to the light bulb: the infrastructure that turned a technological artifact into a business.
When a person uses a technological artifact to perform an action thousands of miles a way, that person might not know the people that will be affected and she might not directly, or only partially, experience the consequences.
An example for an investigation of the evolution of a technological artifact during its co-development is provided by Pan et al. [97], who study the evolution of object-oriented software using complex network theory.
We use the notions of "rhetoric" and "frames of reference" in adopting "material semiotics" as the theoretical background for observing the behaviors and interactions of the different actors involved in the construction of this technological artifact.
Engineers are often assumed to be instrumentalists, meaning they believe that technologies and technological artifacts are intrinsically value-free, only acquiring moral significance at the point at which they are employed by human agents for particular uses.
The problem of many hands and the distancing effects of the use of technology illustrate the mediating role of technological artifacts in the confusion about moral responsibility.
This conceptual connection between technological artifacts, functions and goals makes it hard to maintain that technology is value-neutral.
Most philosophers of technology, however, agree that technological development is a goal-oriented process and that technological artifacts by definition have certain functions, so that they can be used for certain goals but not, or far more difficulty or less effectively, for other goals.
Maintenance has implications for the identity of technological artifacts.
