Pedro H. Albuquerque posted in Technology-and-Society community

Sociotechnical taxonomy: technologies

To better understand the relations between human skills, cybernetics, technological innovations, and their socio-economic effects we define technologies as follows:
Definition 1: a technology is cybernetic if it can self-govern, otherwise it is noncybernetic.
Definition 1.1: a technology is automatic if it is cybernetic but not capable of decision-making.
Definition 1.2: a technology is autonomous if it is cybernetic and capable of decision-making.
https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.24542293.v2