"Technologies of Choice?"

                  I originally began my search by typing "Information Society" into Amazon to see what it came up with. The books on the first page seemed to either be way too long (around the length of 700 pages) or were much too expensive (200 dollars).  I played around on Amazon, adding keywords to try and yield a specified book title. When that didn’t work, one of my friends suggested an author named Bruce Sterling who had written a slew of books about technologies of today and their uses in the modern world and best of all, the books were published in a timely manner! However, the problem with many of the books was that they had strong romantic overtones to give the story a plot, which didn’t fare well with what I was trying to write about. The book that Sterling wrote which would have been absolutely perfect for my story was written too long ago, and his present books were too wrapped up in romantic love plots to work for a technical paper. I resorted to googling random terms from the class in order to find a book to read, and still I came up with nothing. Finally, in hot desperation, I typed “The Information Society Books” into Google, verbatim, and just began clicking on books. I didn’t know what would happen and I was angry that I couldn’t find anything. Then I found the website name MIT press, which gave a slew of fine books about modern technologies and their workings. I picked the first book on the list which is named “Technologies of Choice?” by Dorothea Kleine. It is said to explore the relationship between people and these new technologies and hoe the rich seem to be more privileged in this field. The book sounded interesting enough, so here we are. I hope to be interested by what is to be said by Ms. Kleine, but I don’t think that should be a problem.


Works Cited: Kleine, Dorothea. Technologies of choice?: ICTs, development, and the capabilities approach. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2013. Print.