Technology and touch

Ian Hargraves

pp. 221-229

in: Knowledge, Technology & Policy 20 (4), 2007.

Abstract

The significance of technology as a human creation is explored through the topic of touch. Touch is variously considered as the alignment of properties of the technological artifact with human sense, as the virtuosity of the user and producer, as an aesthetic, and finally as a participation in problems of value that exceed any one person's capacity to grasp.