Effects of Communication Technology

In the text there are four views of the effects of technology on communication. They are the contingent view, nuetral view, dystopian view, and the utopian view. The contingent view is the idea that technology's effect on communication depends on the context or the situation in which the technology is adopted. The nuetral view says that technology has no effect on communication which seems like a very nieve idea to me. The dystopian view is that technology limits our personal freedoms and benefits only the economic elite which again seems to extreme to be true in all cases. The utopian view is the idea that information technology serves to equalize power relationships at work by bridging time and space, thereby improving both productivity and work life. The utopian view is basically the idea that all of the effects on technology are positive on communication which I think is a nieve idea as well. I believe the truth of the effects on technology are a mixture of all these views and none of them seems to be right on its own. If I had to pick one of the theories I would say that the contingent view is the closest to being correct because it considers that in different contexts technology will have different effects.