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Adverse consequences of scientific and technological progress
Visualization of narrower problems
Name(s):
Dogmatic belief in benefits of technical progress
Broader
Inappropriate understanding of progress
Narrower
Medical backlash
Increasing pace of life
Fashionable mental disorders
Excessive work-related travel
Technical ignorance of decision makers
Excessive computer control of social processes
Uncontrolled environmental impact of technology
Overemphasis on effective use of technical resources
Related
Unjustly persecuted scientists
Aggravates
Anti-science
Proliferation of information
Progress equated with efficiency
Maldistribution of science and technology
Proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology
Irresponsible scientific and technological activity
Faltering structural adjustment in the world economy
Natural resource depletion due to high-level consumption
Inevitable destruction of humanity by the natural environment
Inability of educational systems to keep pace with technological advancement
Aggravated by
Fast and irregular pace of technological advance
Reduced by
Lack of technological progress
Strategy(ies)
Conveying dogmatism
Promoting scientific and technology culture
Value(s)
Belief
Progress
Adversity
Disbelief
Dogmatism
Unscientific
Reference(s)
Coppock, Rob: Social Constraints on Technological Progress
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems