Technology Impact

A structured framework for analyzing technology impacts using McLuhan's four-effect tetrad: what a technology enhances, obsoletes, retrieves from the past, and reverses into when pushed to extremes. You get systematic prompts across economic, social, political, educational, healthcare, and environmental domains, plus stakeholder analysis templates and temporal projections. The anti-patterns section is genuinely useful, calling out stuff like only analyzing benefits or treating all users as homogeneous. Use this when you need to think through second and third-order consequences of tech adoption, whether for product planning, policy work, or just understanding why your communication tool somehow made everyone lonelier. The smartphone example shows how it works in practice.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add jwynia/agent-skills --skill technology-impact --agent claude-code