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  • Papert eventually was forced to respond to the critique that logo was not delivering the goods because they could not be measured clearly and he accused his critics of being "technocentric"

    Archive 2006-07-01 Bill Kerr 2006

  • Papert eventually was forced to respond to the critique that logo was not delivering the goods because they could not be measured clearly and he accused his critics of being "technocentric"

    technological change and systemic change Bill Kerr 2006

  • The interventions suggested post-WSIS tend to be very technocentric and may overfocus on infrastructure over questions of content.

    Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – What do we need to know? 2009

  • In the wake of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), it's disappointing that our plans continue to be so limited and technocentric.

    Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: the complex world of ICT and gender 2009

  • After a stint at Château Pétrus in Bordeaux in 1979, Mr. Ramey returned to Northern California with a more nuanced vision of winemaking than the technocentric version he'd been steeped in at Davis, and became one of the leaders of the post-Mondavi generation who helped make the '90s a golden age for Napa and Sonoma.

    Wines That Favor Balance Over Power Jay McInerney 2011

  • After a stint at Château Pétrus in Bordeaux in 1979, Mr. Ramey returned to Northern California with a more nuanced vision of winemaking than the technocentric version he'd been steeped in at Davis, and became one of the leaders of the post-Mondavi generation who helped make the '90s a golden age for Napa and Sonoma.

    Wines That Favor Balance Over Power Jay McInerney 2011

  • As we adapt to new and diverse students: net gens, adult learners, international students, etc., our emerging challenge has been to maintain this personal touch in the increasingly technocentric academic library environment.

    January 2007 2007

  • She condemned our technocentric and hegemonic form of warfare as "wicked" because of its "absolute indifference to the cost in human lives" to the Vietnamese people.

    William J. Astore: Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan 2009

  • You wrote: "you called it technocentric and failed to mention that the educational leaders of the project have well established positions against technocentrism"

    Teemu talks nonsense about the OLPC Bill Kerr 2008

  • That you called it technocentric and failed to mention that the educational leaders of the project have well established positions against technocentrism.

    Teemu talks nonsense about the OLPC Bill Kerr 2008

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