Sentences with phrase «technological reason»

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

Somehow the logic dictated by technological reason is thought to be best.

As technological reason creates more and more networks of machines and organizations dedicated to rational efficiency, problems are more or less solved — temporarily.

What are the threats and promises posed by our increasing dependence on technological reason?

What does it mean to say that technological reason needs the help of visionary reason in deciding what is better or worse for human beings?

There are no realistic technological reasons why his data should not have been stored.

Within this framework technological reason aims at getting the job done in the most efficient way, getting the most in its results from the least in its resources.

By doing so we can get a better idea of how technological reason goes about its job.

However, if human beings desire not only to live but to live well and to live better, then technological reason alone can not suffice.

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

The problem is that technological reason limits itself to practical effectiveness.

When technological reason has organized all human activities and found absolutely the most efficient way to do everything, then people will indeed have become things.

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

As long as technological reason is limited in its scope, no great problems arise.

The next chapter has to do with the threats and promises posed by our increasing dependence on technological reason.

Another chapter will contend that technological reason needs to be under the direction of visionary reason.

So the question arises as to whether open rates are still a useful metric for measuring email marketing success when open rates are falling for technological reasons rather than due to any change in subscriber behavior.

Hand in hand with such a philosophy, confidence in technological reason has come to reign supreme in our world.

D. Following termination, our channel partners may still keep digital copies of your book for the sole purpose of supporting their customers who have purchased your book prior to termination, for re-downloads due to errors and other technological reasons or technical related issues.

Pessimists fear that solving problems by technological reason means that efficiency will finally prevail everywhere.

Unless technological reason is dominated by a vision that comes from beyond itself, it will lead us toward robotic efficiency, void of human ecstasy.

Ellul and Mumford see something profoundly threatening and subtle in our growing reliance upon technological reason.

At the early stages it would appear possible, in principle, to use technological reason advantageously with acceptable risks or loss.

But technological reason functions in one particular way.

The way technological reason and visionary reason interact with each other will in large measure decide whether the future should be welcomed or dreaded.

Left to itself, however, technological reason gravitates toward solutions which get the most done with the least expenditure of money, time, or effort.

It pulls technological reason upward toward the vision of God and resists the gravitational pull toward an ethical outlook which knows no appeal beyond survival.

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.

At the one extreme are the rules of mathematics which guide technological reason in its search for the most efficient way of achieving some limited and prescribed goal.

Optimists claim that technological reason takes orders from whoever is in charge: they will decide what goals are to be sought and who is to benefit, and so ultimately everything depends on their values.

In these everyday settings what I have called technological reason and visionary reason intersect and overlap.

An industry report says there is no good technological reason for Amazon and Apple to restrict readers to their formats.

Assuming the GS7 edge + will use the same internals as the other GS7s — as was the case with the GS6 edge + and its siblings — there's no obvious technological reason to hold this model back.

My review of Drawdown was published in The Nation on May 28, 2017, under the title A New Book on the Climate Crisis Makes the Persuasive Case That We're Not Doomed, Not for technological reasons, anyway.»

What do the pessimists mean by technological reason?

These days all eLearning content should be viewable on mobile devices - unless there is any particular corporate or technological reason why not.

Also, search seemed extremely slow, although I assume that has nothing to do with LexisNexis and perhaps more with the format or other technological reasons.

As technological reason is applied to more areas of human life, trade - offs inevitably have to be made.

A value system is implicit in technological reason.

Few have so far seen that the only solution is the rejection of the totalitarianism of technological reason itself.

Recovery is now in its ninth year with relatively slow underlying growth for demographic and technological reasons, very low unemployment and high asset prices.

The next chapter will develop the concept of visionary reason as the saving counterpart to technological reason.

In the vision of Roderick Seidenberg, technological reason will continue to organize every aspect of life until the one best way to do everything has been found.

Their claim is that the real enemy is technological reason itself.

In principle, then, technological reason may be able to provide cures for many of our ills, while in fact, these solutions may not be enacted due to the failure or inability or unwillingness of society to accept the remedy.

That is the final result of technological reason.

Eventually, he says, if the principles of technological reason are taken to their conclusion, life will be «made to conform, as in a space capsule, to the minimal functional requirements of an equally minimal environment — all under remote control.

Machines and social systems that function like clockwork tend to be the ideal of technological reason.

Ellul thinks that we are fanatically committed to the use of technological reason to solve our problems.

These are the reasons why there is a tension between the practical effectiveness of technological reason and its total human adequacy.