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A 9 page assertion that technology not only presents a threat to our natural world but has the potential to strip us of our very humanness. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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9 pages (~225 words per page)
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technology has unquestionably had many positive impacts, it has also had many negative impacts. In one sense technology has been an enabler. In another it has been a
hindrance aspects of human relationships with the natural world. This duality has, in fact, been in place since ancient times and the invention of that first rock tool.
Philosophers have struggled with the question of how to maintain our humanness in the face of technogical influences that attempt to strip us of that humanness. This struggle, of
course, is a dialectical struggle, a struggle to resolve the differences that exist between technology and man rather than accepting the possibility that one, in fact, is becoming the other.
The negative impacts of technology are being felt in a diversity of areas and many are beginning to speak out about
these negative impacts. Neil Postman is one of the scholars whose voice is becoming more and more resonant in its critique of our growing dependence on technology. Postman
is one of the nations most well known social critics. In "The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School" turns his attention to the educational situation in
this country. Postman offers specific advice on the steps which need to be taken to revitalize education. He identifies poor motivational techniques and a general lack of focus
as the roots of most problems the nation and its schools are experiencing. Postmans narratives target around four different traditional concepts: economic utility, consumership, technology, and separatism.
He contends that the current approach of teaching students to buy more, worship technology, and to cling to their ethnic identities are the major shortcomings in U.S. schools and
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