Sentences with phrase «of a technological civilization»

The environment which it has created is favorable to the development of a technological civilization, but rather unfavorable to the maintenance of the Christian faith.

In literature, scenarios of the future are typified by Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World — both outlining horrifying prospects as the destiny of technological civilization.

Religion has to do with individual salvation; the church should not become involved in the problems of technological civilization.

-- The inevitable reaching of the limits within which the earth, the air, and the sea can absorb the excreted wastes and poisons of our technological civilization without producing massive ecological disasters.

During the cold war, many researchers worried that the lifetime of a technological civilization might be distressingly short, maybe a couple of centuries or less.

A universe full of technological civilizations is a very different place from one with only us.

Such «bottlenecks» between the origin of life, the evolution of intelligence and the development and sustainment of a technological civilization could prove problematic not only for the search for E.T. but also for our own future.

On the other hand, if there are 100 billion suitable planets in our galaxy, if the origin of life is highly probable, if there are billions of years of evolution available on each such planet and if even a small fraction of technical civilizations pass safely through the early stages of technological adolescence, the number of technological civilizations in the galaxy today might be very large.

This radiation gives evidence of our technological civilization to any extraterrestrial watchers.

Colourful and violent — even aggressive, at the start — his work, populated by robots, automata, insects, primitive figures and dreamlike forms, illustrates the hallucinatory dreams and the icy nightmares of our technological civilization.

But while The War in the Air envisioned a grinding 30 - year war ending in the destruction of technological civilization, in reality war actually spurred technological development to a pace more fantastic than even Wells» insight and imagination could envisage.

Given the ubiquity of clay, I think it likely that ceramics would be an early development of any technological civilization, and they are robust and inert enough to survive in many metamorphic and some igneous environments.