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Technology, related subjects.  ---  .This section is about related subjects on technology.  Topics include: ( ) Economics, business and technology.  ( ) Ecology and technology.  ( ) Politics, law and technology.  ( ) Psychology and technology.  ( ) Sociology and technology.  ---  1/24/2006


Technology, related subjects.  ---  (1) Economics: how much does technology cost, how does cost drop with development?  (2) Technology: how good will the technology get how soon?  (3) Psychological/social: new groups forming not on proximity but on interests and values, haves vs. have nots.  (4) Political/law: patent, how hard a government supports technology development.  How much a government controls a technology.  ---  11/15/1994


Technology, related subjects.  ---  (1) Psychological aspects: invention, creativity.  (2) Behavior: making and using.  (3) Social: technology and culture.  (4) Metaphysics: the invented thing itself.  ---  01/01/1993


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Art and technology.  (1) New technology yields new forms of media, which yields new forms of art.  (2) New technology yields new views of the world, which yields new forms of art.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Art and technology.  New technologies yield new forms of art.  Examples from history include, canvas painting, celluloid movies, and computer video games.  ---  11/9/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Business runs off of technology.  Business spreads technology by using technology.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Business.  Free market competition is a spur to invention.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Business.  Single independent inventor vs. many person big business, government, or university labs.  Who gets more done for less money?  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Do only humans make extensive use of technology?  Not animals?  Not robots?  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology and technology.  Development of an ecologically sustainable technology is important.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology and technology.  Pro-environment technologies.  Anti-environment technologies.  ---  10/9/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology and technology.  Sustainable technologies are most important.  ---  4/11/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology and technology.  Technology can change the environment, for better or worse.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology: how harmoniously to live with nature and why.  Reasons: pollution, aesthetics, peace of mind.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology.  How simply/complexly to live and why.  Reasons: mental health.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology.  Nature and technology (see biology).  Resource depletion, pollution, ozone depletion, green - house effect, acid rain, etc.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Ecology.  Technology vs. biology (see also ecology).  Pros and cons.  Effects of technology on ecology.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Economics and technology.  Cost of a technology to produce and use.  ---  4/11/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Economics and technology.  Technology increases economic efficiency.  Technology changes the structure of the work system.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Economics and technology.  Technology increases economic efficiency.  Technology lets one accomplish a task in fewer person-hours.  ---  10/9/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Economics: (1) Technology advantage yields economic advantage.  (2) Utility, quality, productivity, efficient, effective.  (3) How long a tool lasts.  (4) Advances in technology increase productivity.  (5) Government industrial policy.  (6) Business spending on research and design.  (7) Number and skill of private inventors, resources spent.  (8) How easy is it to get idea protection, physical development of idea?  (9) High tech vs. low technology.  (10) Costs and benefits of each.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Evolution of humans and technology.  Stone tools.  Civilization.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Evolutionary technology.  (1) Technological behavior in animals.  (2) Technological behavior in early humans (200,000 - 10,000 BC).  ---  5/16/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  History and technology.  The historian often makes new archaeological discoveries with the help of new technologies.  For example, carbon dating, the global positioning system and ground imaging technologies.  ---  11/9/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Individual and technology.  ---  10/9/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Individual and technology.  (1) Appropriation of technology by individual.  Use of technology by individual by free choice. vs. (2) Subjection of individual to technology against the individual's will.  Exposure of individual to technology of others, against the wishes of the individual.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Laws: promoting technology vs. prohibiting technology.  Laws to limit use of a technology vs. increase us of a technology.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Leisure: technology causes increases leisure time and increases leisure opportunities.  Is this true?  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Math: quantitative methods and technological development.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics and technology.  (1) Technology in democracies.  Technology used to empower people.  (2) Technology in totalitarian states.  Technology used to enslave people.  ---  11/9/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics and technology.  (A) Technology can be  used for or against democracy.  Pro-democracy technologies.  Anti-democratic technologies.  (B) Laws can promote science and technology, or laws can demote science and technology.  ---  10/9/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics and technology.  Good technology is technology that promotes justice, equality and liberty.  Bad technology promotes injustice, inequality, slavery, crime, torture, terrorism.  ---  4/10/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics and technology.  Technology can be used for justice, equality and freedom, or technology can be used for injustice, crime, oppression and exploitation.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics: (1) Technological advantage yields political advantage (power).  (2) Regulation of technology by government.  (3) Promotion vs. discouragement of technology by government.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics.  Advances in technology require new laws for control (greater complexity in world).  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics.  How political groups use technology to exercise power by gaining or squelching freedoms.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics.  Technological advantages yield advantages in subject areas, which yield political or power advantages.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Politics.  Will a technology promote or hinder democracy?  ---  08/14/1994


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Psychological: (1) How free thinking and individualistic people are?  (2) Biological, psychological, social factors that form a creative person.  (3) Imagination, perseverance, curiosity, drive.  (4) Affects of technology on personality.  (5) Ideas are tools.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Psychology and technology.  (1) Perception and technology.  Technology changes our perception of the world.  Ex. telescopes and microscopes.  (2) Behavior and technology.  Technology changes our power to act on the world.  Technology increases our abilities.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Psychology and technology.  Technology changes the way you see yourself and changes the way you see the world.  Technology makes yourself seem bigger (and faster and stronger) and technology makes the world seem smaller.  ---  11/9/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Religion and technology: technology decreases belief in god.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Religion and technology.  Religion typically objects to new technologies on the grounds that it enables humans to "play god".  Objecting to new technology on the grounds that the new technology "lets humans play god" is one way how religion impedes progress and keeps people backward.  Really now, humans invented god, so why shouldn't humans play god?  ---  11/9/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Science and technology: how development of each promotes other.  Science contributes to technology, and technology contributes to science.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Social attitudes towards change.  (1) Is change possible or not?  Man can effect change vs. only god can effect change.  (2) Is change good or not?  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Social effects of technology.  Technology changes the way we organize, and changes the way we interact, especially communication and transportation technologies.  ---  08/25/1994


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Social technologies:  (1) Personal social skills.  (2) Techniques for organizing a society.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Society and technology.  ---  10/9/2005


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Society and technology.  (1) Amount of technology in a society.  A little vs. a lot.  (2) Level of technology in a society.  High or low.  Amount of technology is not the same as level of technology.  (3) Technology changes our social practices.  Ex. telephone, Internet.  ---  9/1/2004


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Sociology: (1) Public opinion pro technology and anti technology.  (2) Affects of technology on social institutions.  Technology changes how we behave.  Technology changes society and culture.  ---  12/30/1992


Technology, related subjects.  ---  Work: technology changes how we work.  ---  12/30/1992




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