HIGH TECHNOLOGY: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND MIRACLE
The article reveals issues related to high technology (Hi-Tech and Hi-Hume) as a miracle. This is due to: 1) inability to present a clear and popular modern scientific knowledge that underlies the high technology; 2) the influence of High Socio-Humanitarian technologies (Hi-Hume), intended for the manipulation of consciousness (advertising, PR, personnel management and knowledge management, etc.) that create distorted images of Hi-Tech; 3) declining natural science literacy and technical literacy of the population, and 4) oriented manufacturers Hi-Tech on the functional literacy of users and to increase the consumption of the convenience.
Keywords: high technology, Hi-Tech, Hi-Hume, science, miracle, technology of consciousness manipulation, functional literacy, technical literacy
Issue: 5, 2012
Pages: 221 — 228
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