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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 ...
Resource curse. The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an abundance of natural resources (such as fossil fuels and certain minerals) having less economic growth, less democracy, or worse development outcomes than countries with fewer natural resources. [ 1]
Curse of knowledge. The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, who is communicating with others, assumes that others have information that is only available to themselves, assuming they all share a background and understanding. [ 1] This bias is also called by some authors the curse of expertise.
London, W. Owen, 1751. A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts) and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt human ...
LANSING, Mich. — LAFCU is now accepting submissions for its annual Write to Educate Essay Contest, which will award $5,000 college scholarships to each of four Michigan high school seniors.
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The essay contest was open to Marion County students currently in third through fifth grade. In 50 to 100 words, students were asked to explain why their dog is #1 or a friend’s or neighbor’s dog.
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 ...