Brian Martins Technological Vulnerability

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TECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY CULTURE HUMN-432

• Brian Martins Technological Vulnerability
• Who Are The Interest Groups?

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Martins Technological VulnerabilityWho Are
The Interest Groups?

• Risk
• Adverse effects due to operation or breakdown of
  a technological system
• Vulnerability
• Adverse effects due to the social processes
  outside the technological system

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Martins Technological VulnerabilityWho Are
The Interest Groups?

• Technological System
• Artifacts
• Relevant Humans
• Skills Routines
• Environment
• Everything outside the system
• Financial Markets
• Infrastructure
• Weather Climate
• Other Systems
• Social, Political, Religious, etc.

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Martins Technological VulnerabilityWho Are
The Interest Groups?

• How to Classify Vulnerabilities
• Type of Technology
• Nuclear Meltdown vs. Military Attack
• Scale of Disaster
• Car Wreck vs. Plane Crash
• Type of Problem
• Human Error vs. Mechanical Failure
• Interest Group
• Causes vs. The Vulnerability Itself

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Martins Technological VulnerabilityWho Are
The Interest Groups?

• Usually some group has an interest in the causes
  of the vulnerability.
• Many times that group works to diminish the
  vulnerability
• Danger comes from the interest group that wants
  to perpetuate the vulnerability.
• Maintaining the status quo

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Martins Technological VulnerabilityWho Are
The Interest Groups?

• Who has an interest in maintaining the
  vulnerability (Martins List)
• Liquid-fuel-based road transport
• Nuclear weapons
• Export cash crops (3rd. World)
• War on drugs esp. Marijuana

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Martins Technological VulnerabilityWho Are
The Interest Groups?

• Who has an interest in maintaining the
  vulnerability (My list)
• Prison system that fails to reform offenders
• School systems that fail to educate
• Welfare systems that discourage family values
• Credit systems that encourage debt
• Taxation system that discourages savings
• Medical system that discourages prevention
• Capitalist Economy that discourages competition