Worldviews and Values

Questions the widespread thought that robotization, and all the more comprehensively, technological advances, have for the most part added to this developing work showcase issue. His thesis appears to be a third path among optimism and skepticism. Niko has also written about the dangers of new technology, such as hereditary designing, nanotechnology, synthetic science, and robotics.The late social critic Neil Postman distinguished instrument using societies from technological societies and from what he called "technologies," societies that are commanded by the belief system of technological and scientific progress to the exclusion or mischief of other social practices, values, and world-views.

All the more as of late, current works of science fiction such as those films such as Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell venture very undecided or preventative attitudes toward technology's effect on human society and identity. Darin Barney has written about technology's effect on practices of citizenship and just culture, suggesting that technology can be construed as an object of political discussion, a means or mechanism of discussion. What this entails is a more complex relationship to technology than either techno-optimists or techno-pessimists tend to allow."