Reading 19
2 key words:
Technology: Technology as a double edged sword, as a burden and as a blessing. He talks a lot about
Technocracy: He states that cultures may be classified into 3 types: tool-using cultures, technocracies, and technopolies. He spends most of his time discussing technocracies, saying that "in a technocracy, tools play a central role in the thought world of a culture."
2 discussion questions:
He talks a lot about tool-using cultures and technocracies, but what would a technopoly look like? Is the US a technopoly or a technocracy?
Which of the three cultures (tool-using, technocracies, technopolies) is best? why?
Should we seek progress? If the good outweighs the bad, does that make something right?
How would you compare last Tuesday's lecture (the guest lecture-David Newton) with the reading? Do they agree with each other?