ABSTRACT
Technological change is not a new phenomenon. Its social and economic consequences have exercised scholars from classical antiquity onwards. Their analyses tend to emphasize the interactive nature of the relationship between technology and society, the former being neither an autonomous determinant of the latter, nor a mere response to social demands. All technologies have social origins, and their manifestations and their impacts on society are mediated by social institutions. Furthermore, people have no simple ways of measuring the rate and extent of technological change. Some commentators have argued. Technology is invading the home Lifestyles are increasingly dependent on the availability of technological resources. It is transforming values Because it creates new opportunities for action, technological change confronts people with new options from which to choose. It could be argued that it is unfair to single out school technology as a testing-ground for interpretations of educational responses to technological change.
