The whole conflict arose by the implementation of this technology. The application of this new technology if thought beyond common sense is much more unclear. It has political, economic, nutritional and military aspects. Theses aspects merged during the Great War in resulted in the lengthened the war for an additional war and extending the industrial destruction.
The technology had an obvious effect on public life, the question is if it was in an authoritarian or democratic manner. One can assume that the technology does not necessarily enable freedom and consequently can affect public life. In the following I will argue that the Haber-Bosch Process is undoubtedly authoritarian.
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The flexibility of the technological Process is remarkable and shows that technology can have consequence for the society from increasing crop productivity to waging war mostly because the society and government can affect the design of the Haber-Bosch Process for their political goals
Secondly, the unidentifiable properties of the Haber-Bosch Process can be described as the inherent consequences of simply implementing the technology disregarding the design, because it is internally political, hence no design alternation can change the fact that the artifact expresses political authority. After the Great War, the Haber-Bosch Process independently from its design lead to political expression by building a monopolistic market by providing the cheapest and purest nitrate with the pioneering synthesis of nitrate. The United States of America believed that they could not disarm Germany without nihilating its chemical …show more content…
Winner’s theory of political artifacts contradicts this assumption greatly. With the extensive research of this paper proves his views to be actually true by using the Haber-Bosch Process as a prime example of how technology can become not only political but also has the power to shape the trajectory of a World War.
The research on the subject of this paper was if artifacts have a politics by using the Haber-Bosch Process as an example. The following results can be summarized in the following.
In the early of 20th century, Germany was under the threat of a famine and food shortages, ever since it increased its dependency on Chilean nitrates. In spite of this, Germany needed more nitrates to supply the growing population. The naval blockade made things even worse and the Haber-Bosch was the apparent solution to this problem within the