理论上，他根据社会和技术变量之间的关系来定义“技术”。

Theoretically he defines "technology" in terms of relationships between social and technical variables.

youdao

更强硬地说，技术可以是社会和管理组织的主要决定因素。

Put more strongly, technology can be a primary determinant of social and managerial organization.

youdao

在我们面前的是技术、精神和社会的变革，这些变革可能比德国印刷术的发明者古腾堡带来的变革更引人注目。

Ahead of us lie technical, psychic, and social transformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg, the German inventor in printing.

youdao

That's an example; you see how information technology created a Social Security system.

这个例子中你们可以看出信息技术,是如何创造出社会保障体系的。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All tended to hinder technological innovation in those societies.

但都阻碍了 社会技术革新的趋势

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

I'm not going to stress public finance so much in this course but it seems-- I'm going to give the example of nineteenth century information technology and the nineteenth century invention of social security.

在这课上我不想过多强调,财政的重要性-,我将给大家举个例子,关于19世纪的信息技术,和19世纪社会保障的创新。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选