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Technology and Contemporary Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Technology and Contemporary Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: Philosophy and Technology, 4
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Nearly everyone agrees that life has changed in our technological
society, whether the contrast is with earlier stages in Western
culture or with non-Western cultures. "Modernization" is just one
of various terms that have been applied to the process by which we
have arrived at the peculiar lifestyle typical of our age; whatever
the term for the process, almost all analysts agree in finding
technology to be one of its key ingredients. This is the judgment
of critics of all sorts - anthropologists, historians, literary
figures, sociologists, theologians. Volume 4 in the Philosophy and
Technology series brings the perspectives of philosophers to bear
on the issue of characterizing contemporary life, mainly in
high-technology societies. Some of the philosophers look at the
issue directly. Others focus on work life - or on the living
arrangements that surround or condition or offer refuge from work
life in technological society. Still others reflect on particular
technologies, especially biotechnology and computer technology,
that are increasingly affecting both work and family life. There is
also a paper on the nature of thinking in technologi cal praxis,
along with two papers on whether it is appropriate to export this
sort of thinking to Third World countries, and another paper on the
issue of responsibility in technology - which would have fit better
in volume 3 of the series, entitled Technology and Responsibility
(1987). Finally, volume 4 closes with a broad-ranging bibliography
that takes work and technology as its focus."
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