Sentences with phrase «in a technological society»

Perhaps the greatest challenge of an individual's participation in a technological society is the pace at which change occurs.

«A key role of education is to prepare children for their adult life,» says Andy Bush, electronics product development manager at TTS - Group Ltd. «We very much live in a technological society and that's highly unlikely to change; children should leave school feeling confident to use any technology and able to get the best out of it.

The church still has a chance to employ such rhetoric in a technological society that wants to deny a voice to all those who live «outside the program.»

There is truth in that statement, but the end result, in technological society at least, has been to imitate many of the worst aspects of historic monasticism: conformity, uniformity and an obsessive concern with communal discipline.

If Christian churches are ever to become a prophetic voice they must give serious attention to the fundamental issues Ellul raises in this book as well as in his previous works on propaganda in technological societies.

Peter Finegold, author of the report, said: «We need to stop talking about the skills gap, and start taking action to ensure that we give children and students the best chance to make informed choices in our technological society.

The plastic, with its evocations of the supermarket, of packaging, of life in the technological society, was subjected to the same mutilation, the characteristic slashing, charring, and healing, to create shriveled, scarlike edges and gaping craters revealing the painted canvas.

In a technological society, Ellul points out,

In our technological society, ruled by the ability to break our lives into hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds, time has been carved out for religious education.

To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new.

When I think of veteran painters like Raoul de Keyser ensconced in the small Belgian town of Deinze, or the reclusive expatriate James Bishop who has spent much of the last half century hiding out in the French countryside, the first lines of John Ashbery's poem «Soonest Mended» pop into my mind: «Barely tolerated, living on the margin / In our technological society.»

It occurs to me that painting is a particularly good site for reflection - in - action, a discipline in which thinking and doing are re-united (it could be argued that in a technological society the two are separated, and to such an extent as to become highly problematical).