Technological Society

Abstract

What are the characteristics of a modern technological society? I would suggest the following:1. The mass production of food, services, and goods, whether customised or not, with a consequent emphasis on productivity. 2. Increasing urbanization, with the greater complexity of life that goes with a manmade environment. 3. A tendency for centralised decision-making affecting ordinary people’s lives, whether by government, or by quangos, or by large industrial and commercial corporations. 4. Increased mobility, with greater access to goods, services and people. 5. The impact of medical technology, particularly at the beginning and the end of life, and the sexual revolution which has followed on woman’s power to control her own fertility. 6. The influence of the mass media of communication on entertainment, news, advertising and education. 7. The capability radically and rapidly to alter the environment of the planet either in peace or through war, and the infliction on it of perhaps irreversible damage. 8. A capacity for technological innovation, leading to an information explosion and to an almost exponential dynamic of cultural change.

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