The Impact of Science and Technology on Culture

Xin, Qi

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-9973-2_5

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The achievements of science and technology are at once delightful and frightening. They seem to empower human beings to conquer nature, but leave us feeble and weak in spirit.

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Notes

1.
“Technical unemployment”: Bernard Barber, Science and the Social Order, Joint Publishing Company, 1991, p. 1.
2.
“…in the theoretical science”: Jacob Bronowski, Leap of Civilization, Taiwan Jing Xiang Publishing House, 1986, p. 240.
3.
“Boundless finiteness”: Wu Guosheng, “Fleeting Passage of Life”, Dushu, 1997, p. 50.
4.
“Instrumental rationality”: Hang Zhi, Yi Wei Ji: Reflection on Taiwan’s Modernization, Joint Publishing Company, 1991, p. 44.
5.
“…workplace and family”: Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and Cultural Theories, Trans. Tang Xiaobing, Shaanxi Normal University Press, 1986, p. 93.
6.
“…feeling in this world”: Elizabeth Devine et al. Ed., Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical and Critical Dictionary, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 1997, p. 107.
7.
“…possession of other people”: Ibid, p. 193.
8.
“…in which people live”: Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching; Aristotle, Study of Nature.
9.
“…nature is disappearing”: Wu Guosheng, “Reflection upon Nature”, Dushu, January, 1997, No. 214.
10.
“…only solid thing”: Elizabeth Devine et al. Ed., Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical, Bibliographical and Critical Dictionary, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 1997, p. 53.
11.
“…flying ashes”: Martin Heidegger, Selected Works of Martin Heidegger, Volume II, Shanghai: Joint Publishing Company, 1996, p. 25.

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Xin, Q. (2019). The Impact of Science and Technology on Culture. In: A Brief History of Human Culture in the 20th Century. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9973-2_5

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