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• curprev 11:1711:17, 12 October 2023‎ Steven Rushton talk contribs‎ 884 bytes +884‎ Created page with " The term is used in Ursula Franklin's lecture The Real World of Technology, in which "prescriptive technologies" opposes "holistic technologies". Example: a form of "prescriptive technology" was used in Chinese bronze casting in 1200 BCE. The production required the skills of model makers, clay workers; metal workers, each of which had a specific set of tools and disciplines. This specialism represented a division of labour. Franklin makes the point that the workers nat..."