daemon@decwrl.UUCP (The devil himself) (10/02/84)
The Culture of Technology______________________________________________________
I haven't read Arnold Pacey's _The_Culture_of_Technology_, though I've
seen some abstracts of it. Further thoughts along these lines are in the book
_The_Turning_Point_, by Fritjof Capra (author of _The_Tao_of_Physics_). He
makes many of the same points, and produces yet more evidence!
Thomas Kuhn's _The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions_ is also worth
reading. Kuhn presents a theory that describes the advance of science in terms
of paradigms - the prevailing theories - that are methodically utilized until
anomalies appear. When the anomalies appear, science is thrown into a state of
crisis until a new paradigm appears.
An interesting view that I've applied to technology as well as to sci-
ence; yielding insights similar to those in Pacey's and Capra's books!
<_Jym_>
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