Implications of Technology

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Implications of Technology
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when
gives way to
D E P T H
standing
under
becomes
t
r
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n
e
st an di ng
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unpredictability
uncontrollability
uncertainty
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LOCAL
NATIONAL
modern industry farming
recombinant DNA tech.
health care
aeronautics
information technology
nuclear energy
GLOBAL
REGIONAL
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Technology always does more than we intend.
infrastructure
environment
ideology
attitudes
Automobile
family
time
perspective - of selves and world
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scientific rationality
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Technological Hubris
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well-being
privacy
freedom
TECHNOLOGY threatens
stability of ecosystems
human existence
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D O E S
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS

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HUMAN PROGRESS
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society
politics
government
technology
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Is it appropriate for scientists, as technical
experts, to be entrusted with influencing
societal decisions?
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frame of reference
practices
behavior
tools


technical systems
reinforce perpetuate values
power to shape social decisions choices
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Once a particular way of knowing the world--for
example, in dissected, disembodied, quantifiable
ways--is embodied in a set of tools and systems
for applying knowledge and dealing with the
world, it tends to foreclose other avenues of
knowing and doing.
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an axiom of the hypertextual
environment
the speed of information processing is inversely
proportional to the rate of retention of
information procession.
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m a k e
meaning
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Information and communication technologies
satellites..computers..cable television..cellulars
.. videoconferencing..computer networking..
virtual reality NEW POSSIBILITIES New
lifestyles new work environments new forms of
democratic participation new economic structures.
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human freedom
sociability
intelligence
creativity
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When change becomes extensive and pervasive, it
must obviously influence and even alter the ways
in which we understand, organize, and evaluate
the world around us.
It will have an impact on our sensibilities and
ideas, our institutions and practices, and our
politics and values.
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ENORMOUS improvements
in
communication
have made
standing
under
MORE difficult.
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monopoly of knowledge
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simcult?
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Langdon Winner Jacques Ellul
Technological Determinism (Autonomous
Technology) Technological Somnambulism Technolog
ical Dynamism
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The global classroom explodes the foundations of
educational institutions by restructuring the
space and transforming the time of teaching and
learning.
Pedagogies 1
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C O N S U M E R
Wisdom Intelligence Knowledge
P R O D U C E R
reality
alternative reality
Society
MIND
consciousness
Biological
Mechanical
emotion
reason
experience
IMAGES
WORDS
virtual reality
reality
electronic
print
BRAIN
lateral
linear
Data/Information
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thrashing
lurking
flame
abort
chaining
execute
kill
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In simcult, the political and cultural
responsibility of philosophy is measured in the
media rather than in the world of academia.
As the foundations of linear thinking, cumulative
history and pure thought collapse under the reign
of media, little is left of what we teach or
learn in PhD programs.
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new environments new expectations
new perceptions new voices
new concerns new requirements
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new environments
cost consciousness telework virtual
organizations virtual communities post-industrial
economy
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new expectations
performance measures responsibilities autonomy job
fulfillment
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new perceptions
knowledge ghettos data floods information
overload fear isolation virtual reality
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new voices
women labour minorities the elderly under-skilled
over-skilled, underemployed illiterate, innumerate
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new concerns
labour job loss redeployment training equity secur
ity education
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new requirements
legal equity privacy access accountability