technicism

  • 1Technicism — is an over reliance or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society.Taken to the extreme, some argue that technicism is the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of existence using technology. In other… …

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  • 2technicism — A belief that technocracy is desirable or inevitable. Also a broad social movement , especially influential in the United States during the early twentieth century (the Technocracy Movement), calling for the elimination of the price system in… …

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  • 3technicism — techˈnicism noun (too great) an emphasis on or concern with practical results or method • • • Main Entry: ↑technic …

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  • 4Technology — By the mid 20th century, humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the atmosphere of the Earth for the first time and explore space. Technology …

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  • 5Religion (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of religion Marcel, Jaspers, Levinas William Desmond Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) and Emmanuel Levinas (1906–) seem like a mere aggregate of thinkers. Jaspers, a German thinker who coined the phrase Existenz… …

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  • 6Themes in Blade Runner — Despite the initial appearance of an action film, Blade Runner operates on an unusually rich number of dramatic levels. [ [http://scribble.com/uwi/br 2019: Off World Archives] ] As with much of the cyberpunk genre, it owes a large debt to film… …

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  • 7ТЕХНИЦИЗМ — англ. technicism; нем. Technizismus. Установка в оценке техники, исходящая из представлений об автономии технической рациональности, ее трансцендентной сущности, способности к саморазвитию и определяющем характере воздействия техники на общество …

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  • 8Marx's notebooks on the history of technology — Karl Marx wrote a number of notebooks on the history of technology. Their whereabouts were not known but in the past they were read and discussed by Marxist writers. Dr Amy Wendling s recent study Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation may have… …

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  • 9Portal:Technology — Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology …

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  • 10Friedmann, Georges — (1902 77) A French sociologist, originator, and the driving force behind the Sociologie du Travail in early post war France; also a trenchant critic of the scientific management movement. Sociologie du Travail developed out of Friedmann s… …

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