Technology devlopments over time.
Title: Technology devlopments over time.
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Technology devlopments over time.
Technology Developments
Scientific and technological developments have real and direct effects on every
person's life. Some effects are desirable; others are not. Some of the desirable
effects may have undesirable side effects. In essence, there seems to be a
trade-off principle working in which gains are accompanied by losses.
Example:
As our society continues to increase its demands on energy consumption and
consumer goods, we are likely to attain a higher standard of living while
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showed last 75 words of 731 total…be harnessed, its movements channeled, its
resources exploited. The metaphors involved here are extremely similar to those
used by colonialism; they presume a need to survey and subdue, to catalogue and
contain, and, ultimately, to turn to profitable use, those areas that are seen
as wild, chaotic, and other. Commercializing the Internet, then, is precisely a
matter of trying to know and control, to colonize and master, that whi ch is
seen as culturally other.
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