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12 pages in length. Technology has become an inextricable component of contemporary society; its presence – both ominous and valuable at the same time – is perceived as a dichotomy of grand proportions where mankind's progression into the twenty-first century is concerned. While Florman (1996) looks with great anticipation toward future technological achievements, Rifkin (1985) casts a far more wary eye upon the potential threats that placing too much dependency upon technology can create. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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at the same time - is perceived as a dichotomy of grand proportions where mankinds progression into the twenty-first century is concerned. While Florman (1996) looks with great anticipation
toward future technological achievements, Rifkin (1985) casts a far more wary eye upon the potential threats that placing too much dependency upon technology can create. II. FLORMAN To Florman
(1996), technologys reach into the deep recesses of human existence has been both grand and far-reaching. That mankind stands at the crossroads of yet another millennium more economically, socially
and industrially advanced than ever before speaks to the significant leaps forward technological advancement has allowed. Mankind, he asserts, "has lived with mechanical devices since the invention of the
wheel and other labor-saving contrivances of prehistory."1 Without the benefit of machines, Florman (1996) argues how the human species would still be living the existence of ancestors two hundred
years ago. Scientific management represented the coupling of science and engineering as they relate to work practices in order to augment management control
and productivity.2 Its emergence took place in the forty-year span between 1880 and 1920, where it was significantly dependent upon machinery in order for work to be appropriately "subdivided
into highly specialised, routine tasks."3 As enthusiastic as Florman (1996) is about the fundamental value of technological progress, he is quick to recognize how something so seemingly perfect
in its application is bound to have drawbacks. For example, he alludes to the fact that perhaps man has become too dependent upon technology to the point of allowing
machines to do all his thinking for him. Noting how computers are a "dominant presence"4 in contemporary society and have been since the mid 1970s, the author illustrates how
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