Sentences with phrase «human technological progress»

You are in control of the planet's shield as it tries to find its way between its own natural well - being and the cost of human technological progress.

Not exact matches

That was true since automobiles transformed our lifestyles while simultaneously killing thousands a day, and it's true in our current reality of mind - bending technological progress with entrepreneurs aiming rockets at Mars and envisioning artificial intelligence that makes humans look about as smart a house cat in comparison.

The Darwinian metaphor of evolution was used to express a faith in a Historical future, in either the coming end of History (Marx) or a more indefinite perfectibility in which our alienating technological progress would finally be ennobled by a corresponding moral progress (say, John Stuart Mill or Walt Whitman) that would be the source of the elusive human happiness promised by modern liberation.

Those who speak so optimistically in most cases seem to make too easy a transfer from technological progress to human progress.

By human standards, scientific and technological advances can probably be called progress, and yet there do not seem to be any similar advances in moral living.

Although globalization of the economy has been characterized as a locomotive for productivity, opportunity, technological progress, and uniting the world, it ultimately causes increased impoverishment, social disparities and violations of human rights.

«Our destiny,» says the third, «is to replace ourselves with machines, which means that technological ingenuity and human progress are one and the same.»

As to us human beings, though we will go on making scientific and technological progress by leaps and bounds, we are not going to become any wiser in matters of faith and morals.

That is the real 2012 forecast: more competition, more technological advance, and — whether NASA does it or not — more progress in the human exploration of space.

But Neandertals were as close as one can get to a counterfactual experiment: they had hundreds of thousands of years to themselves in Europe without our interference and showed nothing like the technological and cultural progress of the modern humans who displaced them.

Whether it is modern medicine's prolonging of life or the fashioning of hunting tools in earliest times, it is hard to think of any milestone in human progress that did not have a technological breakthrough behind it.

A century after Amundsen planted the flag — beating out Englishman Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition by a full month — an explosion of technological progress has transformed the scope of human knowledge of Antarctica.

The torch - lit Rembrandt lighting of the first few episodes has, thanks to the profusion of oil lamps, given way to a more even, golden illumination, a visual analog for how social and technological progress removes some of the darkness from life, yet leaves the essential human drama — the collision of individuals stumbling from cradle to grave — untouched.

I also like reading about history, psychology, and human nature, technological progress and scientific thought.

So regardless of criticism, we must acknowledge human progress, even if indirectly, has been encouraged and moved by the technological advances that were influenced by video games!

Other paintings by Gavronsky evoke a scrapbook, or perhaps a crime wall, mapping key moments of human technological «progress», from industrialization in the 1800s to the «Great Acceleration» of the 1950s through to the present.

Metzger's career was about alerting us to the risks in our deluded pursuit of technological progress, and of humans being eclipsed by their machine selves.

Through this presentation of recent acquisitions and selected loans, an inquiry is opened as to the place for feelings within what we perceive to be technological progress and development, evoking the struggle of Dorothy's human - machine hybrid, the Tin Man.

Human adaptability has been rapidly increasing thanks to access to fossil fuel energy and technological progress.

(i.e. technological progress is accelerating so quickly that, if unhindered, will produce home computers smarter than the entire human population combined by 2050, thus easily solving and creating far worse problems than AGW along the way) Thanks!

Also, while I think that science and technological progress and capitalism have done a pretty good job of avoiding permanent resource scarcity so far (eg, the Simon / Ehrlich bet), I don't think we should assume that they can do so forever, or that economic growth will continue at the current several percent rate forever - they might, betting against human ingenuity is always dangerous, but a good, robust strategy would take into account the possibility that there might be limits to growth even if it is difficult to pinpoint any one given constraint.

For you — it's not about CO2 emissions and climate change, it's that humans are now overrunning the planet due to technological progress?

«In a technological society such as ours, there is a real danger that the value placed on material progress over-rides the value of human potential and dignity.»

However some fear that technological progress will eventually create machines and processes that move beyond human control.

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