Even though most people can admit that they are unable to live without technology, some of us still wonder about how this technology influences our lives and society as a whole. ... These authors place an emphasis on technology's influence on society, and share a concern with regard to the role technology plays on a day-to-day basis. ... It is evident that the media can be regarded as a sign of scientific and technological growth, but both authors recognizes that there is a dichotomy with regard to what people want from the media and their experiences with it. ... Further, technology mak...

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The issues of risks involved in applying scientific technology, was reflected through the characterisations of Flowers for Algernon. ... This fast course of change in the character strengthened the effectiveness of the issue of risks involved in applying scientific technology. The physical state of Charlie was also effective in portraying the risks involving scientific technology, because they helped highlight his feelings through symptoms. ... The effectiveness of the social issue of risks involved in applying scientific technology was also contributed by the use of first person point of vie...

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For example, it is stated in Agger (1998:88) that Marx's "failure to separate selfreflection and communication from technology led to economic determinism". ... Hence this argument contributes directly to the criticism towards Marxism as it is too scientific and deterministic as mentioned above. ... According to Marcuse (cited in Ritzer, 2011:285) "technology, no matter how pure,' sustains and streamlines the continuum of domination". ... Critical theory sees technology as the proxy to mental oppression of the mass society which directly poses a threat to democrac...

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Although the internet can be a wonderful tool for research and work, no one has any idea of what all of this media and technology use means for our kids as they grow up. The impact of heavy media and technology use on kids' social, emotional, and cognitive development is only beginning to be studied, and the emergent results are serious. ... Too much access to this technology has been shown not only to inhibit learning and comprehension, limit social growth and self-esteem, but introduces our children to harmful and dangerous situations. ... There has been no scientific proof that the use...

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Postmodernism is hard to define because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study such as art, architecture, music, film, literature, sociology, communications, technology, and politics. ... Specifically, the use of electronic computer technologies has revolutionized the knowledge production, distribution, and consumption in our society. ... There's every reason to expect that scientific-technological progress is going to continue racing ahead in the near future, becoming increasingly capable of touching everybody's life in one way or another and in my opinio...

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" These "groups" are fundamental to creating an inline world full of profiling and innovative technology. ... These building blocks are the foundation on which human traits are discovered scientifically and even spiritually. ... Although the Internet and technology has been around a short time in the overall timeline of the world, we know that it is changing the way we look at the society and ourselves. ...

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Often the artifacts recovered from a past civilization can tell us a great deal about how those people lived, their level of technology, their patterns of subsistance, and so on. Anthropology uses methods and tools from multiple scientific disciplines, such as the scientific method which allows the testing of falsifiable hypotheses. ...

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It is sad that technology has took over everything. ... With the technology advancing every year, I now can access my Facebook account through my phone in a matter of seconds. ... In the International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Trisha Dowerah Baruah, a professor from Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University, writes about the communication advantages that social media gives to teachers. ...

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Lastly in his essay Havel states, "Perhaps our lack of responsibility for the planet is only the logical consequence of the modern conception of the universe as a complex of phenomena controlled by certain scientifically identifiable laws, formulated for God-know what purpose. The science and technology that we have in today's age is not only a helper it is also a destroyer. ...

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These industries did provide awesome technology, productivity, and created many consumer goods; but also continued to cause overproduction, monopolies, labor strife, and spoiled natural resources; while also enraging American citizens. ... "Social Darwinism provided a seemingly scientific rationale with which to oppose governmental interference in social and economic affairs." ...

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They have technology that surpasses the rest of the countries and actually have the capital to invest in technological research. ... Also, they invested in the education of their country which led to scientific discoveries and resulted in the industrial revolution as they used their natural resources (e.g. coal reserves). ...

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The description of nation would technically be very similar, but the term "nation" implies more than a political or legal institution, it also represents the individuals who live within the states boarders, but as observed by Hugh Seton-Watson, "I am driven to the conclusion that no "scientific" definition of nation can be devised; yet the phenomenon has existed and exists" (Seton-Watson 1982: 5). ... War creates room to move and sudden and justifiable need for new and better technology. ...

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American culture had a slow steady start, and for a while it seemed as though it would remain that way. This was until an island on the coast of New York changed American culture and society. This island was called Coney Island. What was Coney Island and what did it bring to the Americans? It was an...

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While propaganda has been around for almost a thousand years, only recently (last 100 years) with the advent of technologies that allow us to spread information to a mass group has it evolved to a scientific process capable of influencing a whole nation of people. ...

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What makes a society civil? This is surely one of the most important questions to ponder in macro-political theory. For so much else depends on our view of civilized behavior. The meaning and purpose of society, what we ought to do, and what we hope to accomplish " all these are fundamentally affected by what we think is the true' behavior of civilized people. Yet even within the most popular views of civil society, there are differences aplenty. ...

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