February 10, 2006

Dewey's Views of Technology

As someone who has followed the career of Vartan Gregorian with great admiration, I was more than a little surprised when I read his gloss on John Dewey's "mistaken" understanding of technology ("Grounding Technology in Both Science and Significance," Information Technology, December 9). Mr. Gregorian writes that Dewey "mistakenly believed that the impact of science and technology was limited to the 'outward' forms of our civilization." Moreover, he "did not see science and technology as