Sentences with phrase «technology as the means to the end»

The key is to regard technology as the means to the end you'd like to achieve, rather than an end in itself.

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Schumacher's vision of an economics devoted not to consumption but to attaining given ends with the minimum means, and his promotion of what he calls appropriate technologies (such as implements that local farmers and manufacturers can fashion and / or maintain themselves), are fundamental, to Berry's vision of a context for re-inhabiting the earth.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Seems like the writer is confusing people viewing technology as an end goal for the bible, assimilating and / or eliminating unnecessary biological or interpersonal face to face interactions, with technology as a means for spreading the bible and even encouraging people to socialize.

Towards the end of the original game, the introduction of new technology such as motor vehicles signaled the end of John Marston's horse»n' outlaws world, which means that there wouldn't leave much room for cowboys in a sequel to Rockstar's 2010 game.

Controls are a means to an end — they are a dynamic and fluid set of tools which evolve over time as an academy's objectives, environment, technology and corresponding risks change.

Deklotz sees the digital tools as a means to an end: «With the technology we now have available, there's absolutely no reason to teach to the middle.»

That could mean the technology will appear on a high - end luxury flagship, such as the Cadillac LTS sedan featured in our Sneak Preview issue that will serve as Cadillac's answer to the Mercedes S - Class.

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Bolting CD - ROM technology onto cartridge - based consoles was by no means a new concept — NEC had already performed the same trick with its PC - Engine system at the end of the»80s and Sega was working on the Mega CD add - on for its 16 - bit Genesis (also known as the Mega Drive)-- but it was a coup for Sony nonetheless; by allying itself with the market leader, the company stood to gain a significant foothold in the gaming hardware arena.

In the end, there are two means of speeding the move away from climate - warming energy choices, as Daniel Schrag of Harvard has explained here before: boosting the public will to act (and accept the costs of the energy - technology transition) or eliminating the cost difference between polluting and nonpolluting energy choices.

Going all out on the hard front end emissions reductions provides these reductions when needed most and also means less low carbon technologies need to be implemented as replacements, thereby reducing the carbon expenditures that will be required for the implementation.

As technology critic Ian Bogost writes in The Atlantic of the corporate and cultural allure of the Internet of Things, «The computational aspects of ordinary things have become goals unto themselves, rather than just a means to an end.