How do technologies become cultural technologies?This week's reading is Terry Flew ch. 2 (Cultural Technologies) via CMD or library

Terry Flew suggests that rather than cultural technologies being those technologies that simply affect culture, they are in fact their own form of culture themselves. These technologies do not just enable users to engage in a new activity, they facilitate a new lifestyle.
For example, online shopping gives users more than the ability to shop online, it enables a lifestyle of laziness, provides alternatives for work-obsessed families with no time to stand in line and be served, creates a community of like-minded consumers and facilitates the total isolation of those who already feel so alienated they can't leave their house to go to the shops.