The essay, “Artifact/ Ideas and Political Culture” is very questionable about how technology is used and how it effects the world.  I feel that technology is a benefit or hasrzed. It’s all in how you use it. You would have to ask yourself how would it be used in everyday life?  Plus would it help or hinder us by changing the economy or environment?
 
         In the essay “Artifact/Ideas and Political Culture”, Langdon Winner proposes a lot of issues in the society. He tells the audience about how technology is making use laze.  For example, he states that answering machines are used because you either can not be there to pick answer the phone or to lazy too.  Also some users of the machine feel embarrassed and it shows in their message, the record “I’m sorry I can’t be her to answer the phone call….” Or “ I am sorry you have to talk to this machine.” It seems that the user is apologizing for using the machine.
 
        In another example, a woman by the name of Maevon Garrott, who worked as a telephone operator for 18 years, was fired and was told that she was less efficient then the average worker in process phone calls, but Garrott noted that some times she spent her time to people who were in distress or lonely.  Like single people that get lonely or children that come home from school and see that the house it empty.  She also noted that she was not going to hang up on them just to fit the standards of the company.  This is a good example of where technology and cultural conflict meet.
 
        Some more of the cultural conflict is shown in the essay.  For example, in the agricultural fields of southwestern USA, the workers would use a hoe that they used to plow the field with, but the handle was short. This is a form of aricfact/ideas. If the workers used the long handle hoe they would be standing and the foreman who manages them could not tell if they were working or just standing around, but when the handle was shorten so that the workers would have to get down on their knees and the foreman could see who was working and who was not.
 
        Winner’s stated point is very strong and conclusive in the examples he talked about in his essay.  Although I feel that he was trying to just give that reader a chance to think about, how technology is used today and how it is effecting us in everyday life.  Winner also gives us a warning for the future of technology.  In Winner’s essay he writes ”If we can not develop these skills or don care to, if we fail to confront the world-shaping powers that new technologies present; then human freedom and disunity could well become obsolete remnants of by some era.”