The Meaning Of Technology Selected Readings From American Sources

Author : Montserrat Ginés Gibert
Publisher : Univ. Politèc. de Catalunya
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788483017333

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The Meaning of Technology. Selected Readings from American Sources by Montserrat Ginés Gibert Pdf

The significance of "technology" has been subject of continuous discussion. This selection of readings, ranging from primary sources to scholarly and critical works and literary renderings, is intended to furnish elements for that discussion. The history of the United States began with the advent of the industrial revolution, which, in turn, became an integral part of American national and cultural identity. Accordingly, that country provides an appropriate setting in which to examine the debate on technology. The reader is asked to relate the selected views herein included to his or her own notion of technology and progress as they both relate to the also controversial terms of culture, ideology, nature and gender

Author : Margaret M. Mullan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793621788

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Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue by Margaret M. Mullan Pdf

Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue: Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy for Today discusses society’s problems with interpersonal communication, arguing that these issues are more deeply rooted in problems in being. Margaret M. Mullan draws on the work of Gabriel Marcel to explore the meaning of body, of being with, and of being at all in today’s world, answering questions about why we are often unable to dialogue with the people around us, why we feel disconnected and alone even in an increasingly technological world, and how these changing technologies expose and sometimes exacerbate our weak connections to others. Engaging Marcel’s reflective method and theory of communion, Mullan explores how we seek communion amid technology and proposes that Marcel’s reflections are generative contributions to the understanding and study of communication, offering a way to seek healing dialogue in present day. Scholars of communication, philosophy, conflict studies, and media studies will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Laurențiu Tăchiciu,Gregor Weber,Markus Bodemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783658261726

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Building Engagement for Sustainable Development by Laurențiu Tăchiciu,Gregor Weber,Markus Bodemann Pdf

The present volume addresses a set of challenges on the pass toward a more sustainable economy and society. Departing from conventional rhetoric on sustainability, the book is an invitation to reflect more closely on everyday routines, on the fundamentals and effects of current activities.​

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780962382

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Nuclear Dawn by James P. Delgado Pdf

At once fascinating and horrific, this book details the conception, development and impact of the atomic bombs infamously dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by the American-led international effort. Horrific and controversial even today, these first uses of the atomic bomb had intense ramifications not only on the continued development of the bomb, but also on politics and popular culture. As well as the technological development, historian James Delgado also examines how the US Army Air Force had to develop the capacity to deliver the weapons, and examines the sites where development and testing took place, in order to give a comprehensive history of the dawning of the nuclear age.

Author : Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786834973

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Masks in Horror Cinema by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Pdf

Why has the mask been such an enduring generic motif in horror cinema? This book explores its transformative potential historically across myriad cultures, particularly in relation to its ritual and mythmaking capacities, and its intersection with power, ideology and identity. All of these factors have a direct impact on mask-centric horror cinema: meanings, values and rituals associated with masks evolve and are updated in horror cinema to reflect new contexts, rendering the mask a persistent, meaningful and dynamic aspect of the genre’s iconography. This study debates horror cinema’s durability as a site for the potency of the mask’s broader symbolic power to be constantly re-explored, re-imagined and re-invented as an object of cross-cultural and ritual significance that existed long before the moving image culture of cinema.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010540346

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carnegie Institute of Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : PSU:000055347853

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Selected Readings in Problems in Natural Resources by Carnegie Institute of Technology Pdf

Author : John McKie,Peter Singer,Jeff Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351895064

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The Allocation of Health Care Resources by John McKie,Peter Singer,Jeff Richardson Pdf

The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very different kinds. Health care can extend the lives of children and of older people. It can make it possible for a person to walk, when without health care that person would be permanently bedridden; and it can reduce the pain and distress of people who are terminally ill. How can we possibly decide which of these - and many more - diverse achievements of health care are more deserving than others? We need a common unit by which we might be able to measure these very different goods. The Quality-Adjusted Life Year, or QALY, is the most developed proposal for such a unit of measure. In this book a distinguished team of ethicists and economists defend the core of the QALY proposal: that health care resources should be used so as to produce more years of life, of the highest possible quality. This leads to a discussion of such fundamental questions as whether all lives are of equal value, whether health care should be allocated on the basis of need and whether the QALY approach incorporates an adequate account of fairness or justice. The result is the most thorough account yet of the ethical issues raised by the use of the QALY as a basis for allocating health care resources.

Author : David Skrbina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1732353271

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Confronting Technology by David Skrbina Pdf

Selected readings and essays in the philosophy of technology

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Power resources
ISBN : UCBK:C108567571

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Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carnegie Institute of Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Population
ISBN : UOM:49015002379866

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Selected Readings in Problems of Population (Social Relations C-711) by Carnegie Institute of Technology Pdf

Author : Klaus Schwab
Publisher : Currency
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781524758875

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab Pdf

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wear­able sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manu­facturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individu­als. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frame­works that advance progress.

Author : Library of Congress. Environmental Policy Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : UOM:39015008847157

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Selected Readings on Economic Growth in Relation to Population Increase, Natural Resources Availability, Environmental Quality Control, and Energy Needs by Library of Congress. Environmental Policy Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technical education
ISBN : OSU:32435079745899

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Journal of Technology Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210013121775

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf