Inventing Technology Assessments on Local Area Networks: An Estimate of the Importance of Motives and Collaborative Workplaces Hugh Burns

In Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1960), Alice experiences, if not learns, an important lesson about purpose. When she encounters the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon, she realizes how difficult it sometimes is to agree on the meaning of words. Although Alice did not assess technology in Wonderland, her adventures help illustrate the ambiguity of interpreting motives and the difficulty of reaching mutual understandings.