This revenge is manifested not only in the destructiveness of
modern technological cultures toward the natural world, but also in a relentless epistemological refusal of the mind to surrender itself to anything larger than itself.
By mono - culture we mean the undermining of economic, cultural and ecological diversity, the nearly universal acceptance of
technological culture as developed in the West and its values.
In Technopoly, Neil Postman says that
overly technological cultures, «driven by the impulse to invent, have as their aim a grand reductionism in which human life must find its meaning in machinery and technique.»
In fact, all religions and secularist ideologies have a common task which unites them, namely the humanization of the modern
technological culture through the development of a common post-modern humanism which incorporates the valid insights of all religions, ideologies and the sciences.
Given a 10 - billion - year - old galaxy filled with stars and planets, and an Earth less than half that age, Fermi guessed we are unlikely to be the
first technological culture on the galactic stage.
IMO, the key difference to me between the space travel / biosphere approach and the let's keep the entire planet survivable approach is that the former necessitates only one or a few countries with similar social, political, and
technological cultures working together to make it happen.
Much like Naruto, the famous selfie - snapping black crested macaque, the Trees debacle raises a number of questions of how the Copyright Act of 1976 and DMCA's Fair Use doctrine should be applied to a rapidly
evolving technological culture, especially as AI and machine learning techniques approach ubiquity.
The influence of
Western technological culture has infiltrated the thinking of educated people throughout the world and the categories of secular concepts are used to explain everything from repairing a bicycle to interpreting the scriptures.
«If children are to develop the self - regulation and emotional resilience required to thrive in
modern technological culture, they need unhurried engagement with caring adults and plenty of self - directed outdoor play, especially during their early years (0 - 7).»
In this context, humanization required critical discriminative approach to
both technological culture and nationalist ideologies.
But here within
a technological culture saturated with militarism, hate, and divided peoples is a man familiar with it all and who has something to say about it.
In Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, Albert Borgmann says that «
the technological culture is the largely unspoken but pivotal issue of liberal democracy.»
It seems we are in for the long - haul as regards re-evangelising
a technological culture.
Because profits were subordinated to ideological purity, those political institutions folded under the pressures of
technological culture.
Women in Africa have to decide whether to abandon ourselves to
the technological culture or to remain in the fire wood and water - fetching age.
Michael Flynn, author of popular science fiction novels in the States, considers the impact of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas upon the development of
our technological culture.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Herschel in one of his monumental treatises on the Sabbath argues that in
a technological culture people expend time to occupy things in space.
As a pastor, I am wondering what you might say to pastors as they seek to exercise leadership amidst
this technological culture of ours.
Religious faith and
a technological culture interact not primarily as institutions, but as aspects of the life of individuals.
The church should adapt to
a technological culture, selecting the best from all fields of human endeavor.
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.
Tom Troeger focuses on the mythic worlds created by metaphor, which he terms «landscapes of the heart,» and demonstrates how communal, poetic idiom can speak to an individualistic,
technological culture.
Important sociological studies today are showing that
the technological cultures of the West, shaped by the secularistic world views derivative of Protestant religious traditions, are dramatically shifting the balance of «intended death» away from homicide to suicide.
The insatiable desire for ever more and ever newer forms of convenience that drives our global economy and
our technological culture leaves a scattered trail of obsolescence in its wake.
That huge mindshare advantage serves Apple well, because they no longer need to sell the idea of the iTunes marketplace to anyone; it's embedded in
our technological culture.
His work and interests explore our relationship with
technological cultures.
They produce programming that challenges prevailing notions of exhibition making, introduce new forms of artistic practice, embed dialogues from other regions into local conversations, and create points of intersection between visual, political, and
technological cultures.
That's the reason why the painting in the show is not just a discourse about and among painting, per se, but painting resulting and reflecting from all mediums and fields of disciplines, including all of the things that were part of the beginning of the consuming and
technological culture of the»60s.
Rae seems to revel in the contradictions of
technological culture.
Sufficient numbers to maintain specialization (that is,
a technological culture where everyone isn't a small farmer)...»
An authentic humanity, calling for a new synthesis, seems to dwell in the midst of
our technological culture, almost unnoticed, like a mist seeping gently beneath a closed door.