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wide set of actor-networks from small companies of 1 to 2 people to
large-scale industrial-academic complexes had come to fruition.
Meeting in a café to discuss another Blacksmith's wind
turbine design. From left, Peter Hjuler Jensen (Risø) and Knud
Buhl Nielsen, Preben Maegaard and Jørgen Krogsgaard.
Figure 5.27
5.4 
Conclusions 
Regarding the history of the wind energy industry and associated
technology, the development of the two is neither independent
nor unidirectional. As many historians and theorists of technology
and society have noted, typically there are sources of influence
moving in both directions from the society to the technology and
the technology to the society. A step further, and technology and
society are no longer isolated worlds where interactions occur
across fixed boundaries. Instead, various material and human
agents create actor-networks that may be maintained over
considerable lengths of time and morph and grow and decline and
split and interact with each other and other actor-networks. This
flexibility of analytical perspective is particularly relevant when
breaking down certain entrenched narratives regarding the wind
industry. Dominant narratives where a social force influenced
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