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| | Chopping Down the Tech Tree:Perspectives of Technological Linearity in God Games, Part One |
 | | They are composed of sets of relationships between in-game variables and technological innovations. | | | I think that many of the titles out there are on the right track in the way they deal with health. | | | As one of the industry's most recognizable franchises (and easily one of the more intricate titles of the genre), it's unfortunate that it doesn't take a more complex approach to nutrition and technological innovation. |
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http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000531/watrall_pfv.htm
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| | How Many Intelligent Technological Civilizations In The MW? |
| | In SETI, it's my opinion we're really looking for beings a lot like ourselves - aggressively technological, dedicated to remaking the world in their own image, cursed (or blessed?) with no small amount of hubris. | | | EDIT: Also, we have only been broadcasting and listening for about 100 years, so just because we havent heard anything doesnt mean other civilizations arent also broadcasting. | | | I just plugged in what sounded like reasonable guesses and that's the result that popped out. |
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http://uplink.space.com/printthread.php?Cat=&Board=seti&main=274774&type=thread
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| | The Humanities in a Technological Society |
| | At a time when the words "difference," "diversity," and "multiculturalism" are on everyone’s lips, and when postmodernism proclaims the end of totalizing systems, technology has been grinding the world relentlessly together. | | | One morning it reminded me of the Mir Space Station, which by chance I had just seen on the news; technological society does not know the horror of mixing. | | | A second feature of technology is self-augmentation: machines keep making more and more machines. |
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http://www.nhumanities.org/russo.htm
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| | What’s Wrong with Being a Technological Essentialist |
| | The crucial question is whether such ontic subversions could ever culminate in an ontological transcendence of the technological mode of revealing. | | | Culture and language are thus what Hegel called “concrete universals”--they exist in their instances--in contrast with abstract universals that are simple generalizations from particulars. | | | Even if the “mode of revealing” were to shift away from the technological enframing, it seems as though we would still be using the same devices. |
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http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/feenberg/symp4.htm
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| | Technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Scale refers to the sheer magnitude, size, and pervasiveness of modern technology. | | | However, due to the increasingly widespread use of ever more complex technologies and their frequently unintended consequences, problems arise in their use. | | | Mechanistic world view: Viewing the universe as a collection of parts, (like a machine), that can be individually analyzed and understood (McGinn). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology
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| | Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Instead of specific inventions, White decided that the measure by which to judge the evolution of culture is its control of energy, which he describes as "the primary function of culture." His model eventually led to the creation of the Kardashev scale. | | | Kurzweil considers this sharp increase to be part of an overall exponential trend in human technological development seen originally in Moore's Law and extrapolated into a general trend in Kurzweil's own Law of Accelerating Returns. | | | Along with Kaczynski, many other anti-civilization theorists, such as John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen, represent the school of anarcho-primitivism or eco-anarchism, which sees the rise of the technological singularity as an orgy of machine control, and a loss of a feral, wild, and uncompromisingly free existence outside of the factory of domestication (civilization). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
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| | Technological Literacy Reconsidered |
| | They may use technology and its products; but, by no stretch of the imagination could they be described as knowledgeable consumers of technology. | | | As a profession, technology education has been preoccupied with the concept of technological literacy -or so it seems, judging by the wealth of literature of the subject. | | | Many people have written on the subject of technological literacy, all of whom are to be commended for their efforts to describe the complexities of the individual who is literate in technology. |
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v4n2/waetjen.jte-v4n2.html
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| | Journal of Engineering Technology: Parables of technological literacy |
| | Technological literacy is like a father who discovered his beloved son had been disobedient and, as a result, banished the son from his household. | | | We may have formulated a concept of technological literacy but we have difficulty transforming that concept into a coherent and consistent description of what it means to be technologically literate. | | | Unconsciously, we assume that everybody is like us and that they have the same need for our favorite technologies. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3979/is_200010/ai_n8920666
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| | Technological and Personal Problem Solving Styles: ... |
| | This may be explained by noting that engineering has grown to be highly abstract, theoretical and removed from practical hands-on applications (i.e., closer to the Humanities in Figure 2). | | | This study found that the differences in the overall personal and technological problem solving scores, and their subscale scores, between freshmen and seniors were not significant. | | | Congruent with this finding, Neal (1983) found that there were no significant differences between freshmen and seniors in personal problem solving. |
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http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v7n2/wu.jte-v7n2.html
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| | 20th WCP: Technological "Paradigms:" Cognitive Traditions and Communities in Technological Change |
| | While the development of mechanics should be seen, following Kuhn, as the realisation of the same principles in different subfields, of which one helps to fix the system, the development of a guiding model like the DC-3 led to variations of the same original concrete artifact. | | | According to this, paradigms rival conceptions that show further changes in comparison to the original Kuhnian approach. | | | These are the hierarchical structure of the technological paradigms, stronger than in science, the 'satisficing modes' (H. Simon) and the role of economic criteria. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieHron.htm
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| | Technological Determinism: The Technological Imperative |
| | They tell us, for instance, that the 'information technology revolution' is inevitably on its way and our task as users is to learn to cope with it. | | | Ellul argued that technology becomes an end in itself rather than a means to an end, a phenomenon dubbed 'teknosis' by John Biram, who also refers to those accepting this as 'teknotic' (cited in Shallis 1984, p. | | | In favour of the inevitability of technological developments (and against the mysticism of inspired genius) many theorists cite simultaneous invention widely dispersed geographically. |
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http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/tecdet/tdet07.html
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| | Technological Determinism |
| | Marx: "In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production, and in changing their mode of production they change their way of living-they change all their social relations. | | | Technological Drift: much of modern change is an accumulation of unintended and unanticipated consequences. | | | If these are related, yet distinctive elements, then the problems they propose require different responses from the human actor. |
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http://www.umsl.edu/~rkeel/280/tecdetrm.html
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| | John Ziman (ed.): Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process |
| | The contributors appear to acknowledge that this would have been a good idea in their collective afterword as well, but presumably many did not know of this work in evolutionary theory - which is new and developing - prior to writing their individual chapters. | | | This problem becomes obvious when contributors argue that artefacts are designed, and are therefore defined by their purpose or function, not just by their existence or form. | | | This means that problems begin with fundamentals, such as finding the basic unit of analysis. |
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http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/4/4/reviews/ziman.html
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| | New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards - Technological Literacy |
| | They will analyze and evaluate design options and then apply the design process to solve problems. | | | Describe how one technological innovation can be applied to solve another human problem that enhances human life or extends human capability. | | | This finding is a great concern to New Jersey business and industry. |
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http://www.state.nj.us/njded/cccs/s8_tech.htm
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| | Reason |
| | In The Technological Society (1964), Ellul declared, "Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity." So in his view technological progress is, alas, inevitable. | | | "The rate of technological development has been deeply affected by the fact that people who studied nature and those who were active in economic production have been, through most of history, by and large disjoint social groups." | | | Mokyr notes that, historically, "technological progress has a better chance in the long run in free self-organizing market societies than in command economies." However, this is exactly what dismays technology critics like Ellul. |
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http://www.reason.com/rb/rb081303.shtml
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| | technological determinism |
| | All of these technological advances seem to have contributed to fragmentation and isolation in my village and, no doubt, washing machine ownership has played its part too. | | | This law is quoted in his The Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells, who explains that technology is indeed a force and a powerful one at that, but | | | As a result, the agencies adopted a new structure which would ensure that at least the bare bones of the story got through, then a bit more detail, then a bit more and so on, thus allowing for the possibility of disruption. |
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http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/techdet.html
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| | Technological Determinism |
| | Technological determinism is based on a misperception of the central role people play in the design and uses of technology. | | | At the same time, we must recognize that perfectly sensible uses of a technology can sometimes have undesirable consequences and that these may not show up for decades or even longer. | | | This idea, sometimes called technological determinism, suggests that technology follows its own course independent of human direction. |
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http://www.nae.edu/nae/techlithome.nsf/weblinks/KGRG-55ZQYK?OpenDocument
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| | Technological Literacy |
| | Technological literacy is being able touse, manage and understand technology: | | | Critical thinking is part of being technologically literate. | | | Using technology involves the successful operation of state-of-the-art systems. |
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http://www.michigan.gov/mdcd/0,1607,7-122-1680_2629_2722-51923--,00.html
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| | Definitions |
| | Rather, it is the technology working within a complex social structure. | | | At its most basic level, technology was defined by Monsma (1986), who used the Greek word technologia, to mean, "the systematic treatment of an art." Monsma also made reference to Rhetoric in which Aristotle used technique to refer to "a systematic treatment of grammar or speech" (p. | | | Those who fear the impact of technology are often the most ardent believers in technological determinism and are outspoken about our need to promote our humanity while at the same time subjecting technological progress to rigorous critique. |
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http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/define.html
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| | Technological leverage |
| | The flip side of technological leverage is that possession of large capital resources does not confer a competitive advantage (although the credibility of an established vendor and the access to distribution channels attendant upon that position has value). | | | A software company with a successful product turns blank magnetic media and paper purchased for pennies into products sold for thousands of dollars by adding nothing but information to them. | | | Technological leverage in the software business stems from the tiny costs of product development as opposed to the enormous ongoing profits of success. |
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http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/subsectionstar2_73_2_4.html
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| | Historian Thomas Hughes (1987, 1994), for instance, suggests looking at technological systems, i.e., complex networks of artifacts, organizations, and people, rather than at individual technologies or at technology-as-a-whole. | | | In other words, the control of technology becomes more difficult, and maybe ultimately impossible, as we move from smaller and simpler structures and artifacts toward much larger, complex, and interdependent systems. | | | Technological systems evolve over time, growing more complex and interconnected. |
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/p/pwhmds/techhist.html
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| | technological - definition of technological in Encyclopedia |
| | Exactly contrary assumptions are made by those who promote transhumanism, posthumanism, technological singularity, which collectively were described as "Cosmist" views by Hugo de Garis. | | | These ideologies are seen as symptoms of scientism and mathematical fetishism by those who use those terms. | | | Another definition — used by economics — sees technology as the current state of our knowledge of how to combine resources to produce desired products (and our knowledge of what can be produced). |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/technological
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| | SSRN-The Internet as a Self-Organizing Socio-Technological System by Christian Fuchs |
| | The Internet is generally considered as a global technological system of networked computer networks, as the network of networks working with TCP/IP. | | | Such definitions see the Internet as a purely technological system, they forget that knowledgeable human activities make the Internet work, the technological structure can't be separated from its human use and the permanent creation and communication of meaningful information through the Internet. | | | Self-organzing systems involve certain degrees of freedom, chance, unreducibility, unpredictability, and indeterminacy, hence when considering the Internet a purely technological system, it can't be characterized as self-organizing. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=458680
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| | MDS 322: Technological Catastrophes |
| | Description of topic and explanation of its relevance to the course theme of technological catastrophes. | | | Topics lacking adequate justification of significant relevance to the course will not be accepted. | | | Consideration of options for living with complex technological systems. |
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http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jherkert/mds322.html
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| | technological - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about technological |
| | The use of tools, power, and materials, generally for the purposes of production. | | | Almost every human process for getting food and shelter depends on complex technological systems, which have been developed over a 3-million-year period. | | | Significant milestones include the advent of the steam engine in 1712, the introduction of electricity and the internal combustion engine in the mid-1870s, and recent developments in communications, electronics, and the nuclear and space industries. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/technological
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| | Pot, Johan Hendrik van der: Encyclopedia of Technological Progress, 2nd Edition |
| | The scientific advances made in the last two centuries have drastically improved the quality and structure of human existence. | | | Exploring the history of that technological progress, and the numerous and complex elements that propelled its development, the Encyclopedia of Technological Progress attempts to comprehensively classify the theories and hypotheses proposed in modern human history on the effects, meaning, and control of these advances. | | | This massive and learned reference work draws on a wide range of disciplines in its study of technological development, including philosophy, sociology, theology, history, and literature, as well as writings found in newspapers, political speeches, letters, and sermons, among other sources. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16522.ctl
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| | (Re-)Designing Technological Landscapes |
| | To what extent were those concepts put into reality? | | | Closer analysis reveals that over time different strata of "technological landscapes" have covered the already existing ones. | | | for the cultural historian, a topic for analyzing the achievements of agrarian societies in their fight against natural forces, infertile soils and parasites, as well as attempts to overcome those shortcomings by technological means. |
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http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=135936
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| | Technological Literacy |
| | Technological capability is developed in students through their participation in a series of technological design problems. | | | These 'set the stage' for learning by providing contexts (or problem situations) within which students think and act systemically to solve problems. | | | understand how technological systems are designed, used, and controlled; |
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http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/toki/tecliter.htm
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| | Vernor Vinge on the Singularity |
| | The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. | | | In fact, on page 137 of [25], Stent explicitly cites the development of transhuman intelligence as a sufficient condition to break his projections. | | | Shortly after, the human era will be ended. |
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http://mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html
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| | State Educators' Symposium on Technological Literacy |
| | The event challenged participants to think more broadly about technology - as more than just the use of computers in classrooms - and to consider how the teaching of technology and engineering and design concepts in K-12 classrooms can inspire greater student interest and achievement. | | | One such initiative resulted in the 2002 publication of Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology, which was provided as background reading to all invitees. | | | On April 28, 2004, the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council Center for Education held a one-day State Educators' Symposium on Technological Literacy in Washington, D.C. A portion of the event was audio webcast. |
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http://www.nae.edu/nae/naetech.nsf/weblinks/MKEZ-5XNHRY?OpenDocument
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| | WHATIS CHINA AS A COUNTRY |
| | Such Chinese monumental works as the Notes in Dream Pool Garden on science in the 11th century and the technological encyclopedia Exploitation of Works of Nature in the 17th century are undoubtedly the great achievements of the world's ancient science; | | | China is one of the six countries in the world that have participated in the human genome project. | | | China produced the heavy-ion accelerator and began to yield ion beams in Lanzhou in 1988, which was the world's third heavy-ion accelerator of same scale after those of France and Japan; |
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http://www.studyinchina.net.cn/e_zggj.html
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| | THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY by Douglas Adams |
| | And so was born both the novel THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and its fictional guidebook counterpart, a technological encyclopedia containing everything any alien race would need to know when exploring the different planets and systems of the universe. | | | As a backpacker, he found a multitude of alternative travel guides for people who wanted to roam around the world in interesting ways. | | | Adams's book begins with earthling Arthur Dent facing the destruction of his house to make room for a new highway. |
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http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/0345391802.asp
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| | Encyclopedia Comparisons: World Books, Encyclopedia Britanica, and more. |
| | With articles covering the historic and political, the literary and cultural, and the scientific and technological, Encyclopedia Britannica covers the scope of mankind’s knowledge. | | | To access quick facts, enjoy in-depth articles, or delve into the full range of human knowledge, turn to the illuminating pages of Encyclopedia Britannica. | | | Simple enough for eighth graders, yet comprehensive enough to serve adult researchers. |
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http://www.phonicsnetwork.com/encyclopedia_comparison.html
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| | Bennett, Steven J. Patterns of the Sky and Earth: A Chinese Science of Applied Cosmology. | | | Translation of a 17th-century technological encyclopedia containing much information about chemical processes. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/nakbib.html
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| | MTU Volcanoes Page |
| | PBS Nova program about Galeras and Long period seismic warnings | | | A primary focus of volcanology is to provide scientific and educational information that can lead to hazard mitigation. | | | Welcome to the Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page |
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http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/index.html
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