Peter Dicken - In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of c

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

- Peter Dicken

source: Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.85, SAGE

topic: Technology, Doe, Agents, Organizational, New Processes, New Products