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Technology Challenged: Understanding Our Creations & Choosing Our Future
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About Technology Challenged: Understanding Our Creations
Technology has transformed our world from the first stone tools through development of agriculture, writing, printing, global transportation, global communication, computing, genetic engineering, and much more. When we used the same technology as our parents and their parents, we needed no more than to know how to operate a few objects. Today, technology's generations pass more quickly than human generations. Further, our choices in education, career, politics, and health are predicated on rapidly changing technology. How do we understand enough about our creations that we can make informed choices? How can we choose our individual and collective future? Stories from the Hawaiian Bobtail squid's use of bacteria to simulate moonlight to an Australian aboriginal tribe's mythology-based evaluation of axes and canoes illustrate a nine-step strategy for understanding and evaluating any technology. By painting a big picture view of technology, Technology Challenged offers context, an antidote to information overload. From that perspective, it reveals the simple patterns underlying all technology, allowing us to see what does not change in a technological world of rapid change.
