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标题：Introduction
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作者：James Holden
期刊名称：Writing Technologies
电子版ISSN：1754-9035
出版年度：2009
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Nottingham Trent University
摘要：It is something of a cliché to say that we live in a technological age. Nevertheless, it is clearly correct to do so. Take, for instance, my position at this moment. I am writing on my laptop whilst listening to a CD on my portable stereo; my study is lit up by the computer’s screen and the electric light above. The radiator on the wall behind me is clanking as water is pumped around the central heating system. My mobile phone is on my desk, connected to a worldwide telecommunications network by frequent messages. I am, you might say, cradled by technology. It completely surrounds me, it holds me within its grasp and penetrates me in all sorts of complex ways. But despite this preponderance of technology, do we really understand it? I do not mean do we understand this or that piece of equipment, how to programme the video recorder say, but do we know what technology is in itself? What precisely is technology and how do we relate to it? What is our experience of it and what forms of experience does it in turn make available to us? In what ways does it hold sway over us?