Sentences with phrase «of technological»

'» The bulk of the document considers «how pursuing the goals of better children, superior performance, ageless bodies, or happy souls might be aided or hindered, elevated or degraded, by seeking them through a wide variety of technological means.»

Realizing it's a fraud but making it likable, the advertising men of our technological age peddle their unnecessary products to a gullible public.

Where the martyrs» challenges were overt, ours are concealed; where theirs were mortal to their bodies, ours are lethal to our souls; and where theirs tore them out of their normal life, ours channel our lives between the unquestioned banks of the technological culture.

Another example of technological optimism is to be found in the writing of Professor Marshall McLuhan and in the work of the Institute of Culture and Technology in Toronto.

Christian faith is open to... indeed, welcomes... interdisciplinary and inter-faith dialogue, not only because it believes it has something to share, but because it knows it has much to learn from the various intellectual disciplines and other religions, as well as from the developments of a technological and electronic society.

Despite all of the technological wonders, however, the Universal picture was still artificial.

There may be some truth in that approach with respect to the earlier stage of the technological advance and probably also with respect to small - scale technologies.

«Mystery» in the media likewise is not an experience of awe and humility: it is an experience of technological curiosity («How did they do that?»)

That awareness has come only in recent years with the destructiveness of technological culture becoming expressly manifest.

Despite appearances, we are not in the grip of a technological determinism that closes our options for ever.

The future can not be predicted, but futures can be invented... The first step of the technological inventor is to visualize by an act of imagination a thing or a state of things which does not yet exist and which to him appears in some way desirable.

Nicaraguan scholar Xabier Gorostiaga argues that in this era of globalization humanity is perceived as fundamentally one, with a common destiny that is the result of a technological revolution in information and communication and the awareness of the unsustainability of the current way of life3.

Likewise, a space team designing Skylab, an economist working on the challenge of inflation in the midst of recession, and a pastor searching for ways to revitalize a congregation show in many forms the interdependence of technological reason and visionary reason.

It is in the nature of technological reason to maximize results and minimize costs.4 The decision - makers who are in charge of a given organization or task may specify boundary conditions which forbid certain means.

Our use of technological reason is gradually causing us to link all networks and systems involving both machines and people.

«Science will solve it» is the cry of the technological optimist.

We the public didn't want to hear of these tragic side effects of our technological prowess.

As a result of technological advance, we have a whole new set of tools that we never had before.

Three come to mind at once: (1) the company's immediate self - interest, (2) the logic of free enterprise capitalism, and (3) the bias of technological reason towards efficiency.

The individual scientists, engineers, and artists may resist the notion of technological and cultural democracy, but it would be fallacious to believe that they are fully autonomous to - day.

The logic of technological reason says that better means more efficient.

The great example of a technological solution in the past was the Green Revolution.

It all depends on whether visionary reason can keep the logical tendencies of technological reason under control.

A decade later F. F. Schumacher, a forward thinking economist, challenged the «bigger is better» mode of technological thinking in his book Small is Beautiful (1973).

Is it possible to affirm the value of the technological revolution, the legitimacy of the hopes and claims of the dispossessed, most of all, of the moral centrality of the Negro revolution in America today — is it possible to affirm all these values and still to live comfortably in the modern world as these writers portray it?

Our conventional response to all media, namely that it is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot.

This leads, not to a repudiation of technological progress, but to the attempt to ensure that the technical aspects of man's life do not predominate over his personal and interpersonal existence.

Are we indeed moving into a global village by the «cooling down» of our technological media?

Just one small thing that the apostles of our technological future have overlooked.

But does not this idea of the ultimate development and expression of technological rationality suggest a future in which human beings, as well as the natural environment, will be subject to complete «rational» control in the name of «efficiency,» the future of Brave New World if not of 1984?

It can, I think, be argued that even the understanding of a purely formal system in mathematics or logic is a valuational activity, involving a qualitative sense of the significance of the elements of the system and their relation.6 If this is so with respect to the most abstract thought, however, is it not even more clearly the case when we consider the development, control, or understanding of a technological device or system?

Skinner rightly sees that behavior control is one of the great problems of the technological age.

To see the reasons for this is to begin to grasp the distinctive nature of Hall's own view of the future of technological society.

Hall thus joins a number of other thinkers in seeing in the Genesis myth a primordial source of the characteristic Western attitude toward nature, an attitude which stresses power, control, domination.1 This attitude, in turn, is seen as essentially determinative of our view of technological activity, and indeed of the entire Western notion of action.

The more their feats become feats of technological ascendancy over (our given) nature, the farther human athleticism gets from the sublime.

A collection of essays published over the past 20 years in which Borgmann makes explicit connections between his critique of the technological character of contemporary life and Christianity.

If we can avoid the dangers of environmental devastation or global warfare brought about by the megalomaniacal pursuit of technological power, and the almost equally dreary prospect of a world of persons controlled by behavioral engineers in the name of technological rationality, we may move into a future in which the pursuit of power and rational order gives way to the cultivation of «intensities of experience.»

The pedestrian applicability of this point is obvious in this day of environmental collapse beneath the weight of technological exploitation.

Borgnann situates his critique of technological culture within the context of the «information age.»

I think that for all the complexity and inertia of the technological enterprise, it is still our enterprise to guide as best we can.

Much of The Uncertain Phoenix comprises an account of the intellectual and cultural background, present status, and possible future of technological society.

In church life we talk often of the effects of technological culture.

Like Jacques Ellul, Hall holds that» [t] echnology obeys hut one rule, the rule of efficiency, and that» [t] he history of technological development shows itself to he the sort of accretive, self - augmenting process that aims ultimately at perfection, which must he construed as complete rationalization, complete order» (UP 304).

The total social context inhibits, promotes, transforms, and otherwise mediates the threats and promises of technological change.

But in their elaborate excavations of sinister «systematic symbolizations» and «analogous» intentions, they manage to overlook the most tangible and widespread type of technological murder in all modern societies: abortion.

The tendency of the technological society that puts a premium on efficiency is to treat people as objects for economic ends and not as subjects who have an urge to live.

Such curricular measures can also be seen as major efforts to stem the tide of technological and professional pressures on higher education.

What I propose in the present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do with the demands of technological society; second, those having to do with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do with pluralism and related cultural change.

That is the final result of technological reason.

Obama goes as far as to suggest that the political aggrandizement of America as a nation is inseparable from its stewardship of technological innovation — he not only wants to «advance the cause of science in America» but also hopes for «America to lead the world in the discoveries it may one day yield».