Technological Advancement

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has always brought forward groups in society that do not wish to see this area progress. The progress in the area of weaponry and warfare is seen by many as an increase in the capabilities for humans to destroy one another and the environment. The dropping of the first atomic bomb in Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, truly demonstrated for the first time the extent to which technology had advanced our defensive capabilities. From the end of World War II it was now safe to say that the human race possessed the capability to destroy all life on the planet, whereas before technology had allowed us only the capability to destroy large amounts of it. With the advent of the development of nuclear and later biological weapons many people had begun to question whether technological advancements in this area were justified or even whether these “advancements” were moral. Should the capacity to destroy life on a scale never seen before be seen as advancement ...

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states that “dispersed solar sources are more compatible than centralised technologies with social equity, freedom and cultural pluralism”. Hayes and many others view nuclear power as not only environmentally unsound but as a symbol for an authoritative political agenda.
Many in society do not wish to see technological progress because of its social consequences. Many critics of capitalism fear that the type of industrial innovations promoted by capitalism would resulting in the domination of “many by the few”. Jacques Ellul a rather pessimistic writer on technology in society says: “But a principle characteristic of technique.. is its refusal to tolerate ...

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