Does technolgy shape society, or does society shape technology? Defend your answer.

Dear Student,
Such questions are made for enhancing the self creative skills and should be tried answering on your own. However, here are a few points that will help you in framing your answer:

• The influence of modern science and technology on society, values and institutions is far-reaching.
• Technology controls the way a society thinks and behaves in the modern era.
• Values are based on the norms and guidelines drafted by technology.
• Rules and guidelines are set up to educate people how they should use the modern technology.
• In the absence of technology the society seems crippled and uninformed.
• Technology shapes a culture when people use new technology in place of older ways of carrying out activities. For example in farming new techniques are being used instead of older ways. 
• Also, modern values of the society have an influence on science and technology.
• Many of the discoveries in the modern era are based on values and needs of the society.

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