[Week2_2] Information has always been...

Reading notes on Langdon Winner's piece. Though I agree with Winner's conclusion that a democratic populace should explore new identities and the horizon of a good society in the cyberspace, I can't quite grasp why this paper was classified on the 'con' side. Sure, he says that what's important is not technology itself, but the utilization of it as social means. But then again, the boost of thechnologies that were centered on information and communication technologies have been about building social networks, from the beginning on. information never was generated by itself or by machines. People produce them, endow specific values on some of them, and communicate it to certain people in the way they intend (or do not intend but turn out to be done anyway). He may be a con to the 'post-' but still 'industrial' society, but IMHO he seem to be laying most of his hopes in the information society in its own meaning. The one who is sticking to much to technology perse is maybe Winner himself.