“The Golem at Large: What you should know about technology”

Technology can be regarded as a phenomenon with vast uncertainties. Technological change is rapid and we are struggling to keep up to date with the latest advances, while learning new ones and trying to prepare for the next changes proposed for the future. In order to do so, however, we need to be clear about what we mean, and what we consider to be a technology and evaluate some of the assumptions of our understanding of our technologically advanced society.

In ‘The Golem at Large, What we should know about technology’ The authors’ main purpose is to show their audience that we trust technology too much and don’t take into consideration that human error occurs. Much of the world of technology, as suggested by the authors, is built on trust: “Trust that the engineers have done their job responsibly, trust that they have the right expertise to do the job properly. “ The idea that even the best intentions go wrong, and that even well designed technology can go wrong at times. They also emphasize that we tend to blame technical failure rather than the human consumption failing itself. By contrast, they chose to link technology to the golem. The golem wa

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