Sentences with phrase «technological society like»

Would we like it today if the Romans had developed a modern technological society like ours, and their scientists told them that using the atmosphere as a waste dump for greenhouse gases would melt the ice caps, acidify the oceans, overheat the tropics, cause species extinctions, etc, and then they decided to go ahead and do it anyway, just because they were selfish and didn't care about other people?

Even in such a highly technological society like that of Japan it is reported that there are 81,511 Shinto shrines, 77,186 Buddhist temples and 6,446 Christian churches, well attended by people.22 Second, the strongest defense against the creeping tide of a secular global culture today is based on religions — Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim.

Not exact matches

Theology - even in a completely non-foundational, web - like rationality signified and shaped by emerging technology - is ultimately constricted by the technological elite who are more able to control information flow in a way that meets their wants and desires, even when these wants and desires are for the purpose of bettering the rest of society and humanity.

I suggest that... we are not at the beginning of continually accelerating change, but that we are in the middle of a unique transition crisis, like adolescence, as we make the jump from an undeveloped scientific and technological society to a fully developed one....

When it comes to facing massive technological paradigm shifts that render our society unrecognizable, it may be that the Internet has left us in a daring and expansive mood, like explorers at a remote tribal banquet, giddy with relief at having quite enjoyed the first terrifying course of baked grubs.

It is incomprehensible to me, that in an advanced society where technological advances are achieved everyday, that some shelters use outdated and inhumane techniques like gassing, or worse... shooting.

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.»

Given modern technological advances such as air conditioning that allow societies to adapt and cope with living in a warm environment, it is highly unlikely cities like Phoenix will become abandoned in the future if the temperature were to warm even a few more degrees.

Nor would it be productive or popular for law societies to proactively embark on an aggressive campaign to discipline lawyers for poor technological practices, like, for example, using weak passwords.