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A 9 page discussion of the place technology has taken in the modern world. Not only has it infiltrated our personal lives, it has infiltrated our churches and our workplaces. Despite the many benefits of technology, however, it has contributed in many instances to the ever-widening alienation and frustration of growing numbers of people. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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has depended on technology since the time the first man picked up that first stick or rock and utilized it as a tool. Our technological world has changed considerably,
however, since those early pages of our existence on earth. Instead of sticks and stones we now rely on a variety of technological gadgets. Practically every technological feature
of our life involves electricity or the consumption of some other resource. The wheel is no longer an innovation but rather a critical component of many different facets of
our technological marvels. Technology has even become an important part of our basic rituals. We surround ourselves not with the ritualistic items of old such as crosses and
stars of David but with reminders of the importance of technology. Because it is apparently impossible to escape whether in our personal lives or our professional lives, in many
ways technology can be credited with the "malaise of modernity" and the ever-widening alienation and frustration of growing numbers of people. There indeed
been many technological and societal changes in our modern world. In "The Rise of the Creative Class and How Its Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life" author Richard
Florida (2002) contends that we have changed because we have sought change. This change has been neither "random and chaotic" nor unconscious (4). Instead, it has been
"perfectly sensible and rational" (4). Florida (2002) suggests that the: "driving force is the
rise of human creativity as the key factor in our economy and society...the creative impulse-the attribute that distinguishes us as humans, from other species- is now being let loose on
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