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Melvin Kranzberg's six laws of technology state: Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. Invention is the mother of necessity. Technology comes in packages, big and small. Although technology might be a prime element in many public issues, nontechnical factors take precedence in technology-policy decisions.
v. t. e. Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. [ 1 ] The word technology can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, [ 2 ][ 3 ] including both tangible tools such as utensils or machines, and intangible ones such as software.
The ethics of technology is a sub-field of ethics addressing the ethical questions specific to the Technology Age, the transitional shift in society wherein personal computers and subsequent devices provide for the quick and easy transfer of information. Technology ethics is the application of ethical thinking to the growing concerns of ...
Technology, society and life or technology and culture refers to the inter-dependency, co-dependence, co-influence, and co-production of technology and society upon one another. Evidence for this synergy has been found since humanity first started using simple tools. The inter-relationship has continued as modern technologies such as the ...
Elementary school-age children who watch TV or use a computer more than two hours per day are more likely to have emotional, social and attention problems; and in teens and adults, excessive ...
The question concerning technology is asked, as Heidegger notes, “so as to prepare a free relationship to it.” [2] The relationship will be free “if it opens our human existence to the essence of technology.” [2] This is because “[o]nly the true brings us into a free relationship with that which concerns us from out of its essence.” [3] Thus, questioning uncovers the questioned in ...
Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values. [ 1] The term is believed to have originated from Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American sociologist and ...
Criticism of technology is an analysis of adverse impacts of industrial and digital technologies. It is argued that, in all advanced industrial societies (not necessarily only capitalist ones), technology becomes a means of domination, control, and exploitation, [1] or more generally something which threatens the survival of humanity.