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Technology is both product and process. As product, its most familiar face is the "stuff" of 20th century North American suburbia. It is laptop computers, cell phones, GPS receivers connected to digital maps, aerodynamic cars equipped with hi-powered stereos racing across 12 layers of stacked freeway overpasses. It is Web shopping, e-mail, VCRs, satellite TV, CAT scans, shrink-wrapped processed food, weekend trips to adjacent states or even adjacent continents, personal collections of all the greatest books and perhaps even all the greatest music, digitally preserved in error-free versions and accessible in one’s own home. It is skyscrapers with express elevators, "pin drop quiet" conversations with mom on that special day, wrinkle-free clothing, cash-free and check-free banking, cinematographic magic, and million dollar bodies created through combinations of medical and photographic "surgeries" that leave us to conclude with Esquire, that "What Michelle Pfeiffer Needs is Absolutely Nothing." Technology as process assimilates everything we do to the model of the machine; it mechanizes everything it encounters.
Approximate Word count = 464
Approximate Pages = 1.9
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