i wanna an scientific article about this:is modern technology creating a single world culture?
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There is a book called "The Twilight of American Culture" which talks about technology causing people to lose sense of national identity and kind of meld into a one world culture.\n\nIt's a pretty interesting read. The author is Morris Berman.
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You bet it has.  With the convenience of the Internet, it takes practically no effort (other than time of course) to research topics of interest.  The pre-technology way was to go the library and spend time browsing the catalog in search of books or publications on the specific subject.  And sometimes, you had to visit several libraries to find enough information.\n\nPersonally, I use technology along with published materials in preparation for my classes.  I guess the downside is there is less dependence on people so I spend less time in that area, not that I'm anti-social or anything.\n\nHope this answers your question.
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only if you're planning a diabolical plot to steal all the pens in the world and send them back to pen island so we alll have to use pencils agian like the 1400s BCE\nactually. the pen came first. so you'd actually be modernizing us. :)
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Perhaps you are referring to how computer networking (the Internet in particular) makes it a "small world"?  Another way to say it is that technology and the Internet have made the world flat.  It refers to "globalization" and the fact that networks and the Internet and technology have changed the way we live, work, shop and learn, not to mention the way we communicate and collaborate... just look at Y!Answers as an example.  People now interact from halfway around the world as if they were sitting right next to each other.  We can get dozens of answers to a question in SECONDS that our grandparents would have spent days or weeks researching in a library.  It's as if we are all sitting in a virtual conference room regardless of how far apart we are geographically, I think that's the idea your asking about.
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Blessing.  Certainly there are problems to solve, but those problems will be solved by further technology, not by banning what we already have.  \n\nIt would be possible to provide a long list of the benefits of technology in the modern world, but I will cite a single example:  modern communication technology allows me, a complete stranger, to answer your question.  We never had anything in the past like the information tool we have now in the internet.  No matter how good a library one had available, it would still take a lot of time and know-how to research every question.  Now, it's all here at your fingertips.\n\nAsk any modern physician how many of his patients would have been worse off ten years ago, let alone fifty.  Ask any research scientist what has happened in his field as a result of modern technology.  The world does not stand still, and we cannot make it do so.\n\nRemember, nothing is an unmixed blessing.  Certainly the internet brings its own problems, but so did the technology of the crossbow!
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It has sadly become far too focused on itself.  If you need more proof, just take a look around at the number of people engaged in a cell phone conversation in public.\n\nIt seems to me our entire culture has turned in on itself, making it ever more convenient to separate ourselves from the world.  Technology has become a double-edged sword, providing us with amazing new ways to be more productive and organized, but often at the expense of human interaction.  Communicaton and entertainment devices provide us with amazing mobility, but our Blackberrys and iPods only further cut us off from one another.\n\nOf course, technology isn't the whole problem.  Our culture has also become incredibly jaded and disenfranchised, always expecting the worst from others and usually getting it.  We use childish, egotistical athletes as role models, making life all about "getting paid".  Our fascination with celebrity has become an obsession--just check out the ratings for "reality" shows.  And our domestic and international political views are too often shaped by sound bites and media talking heads.  Apparently it's just easier to agree with someone than figure it out yourself.\n\nI don't believe it has to be like this.  Our technological advancements don't have to come with a price that devalues our very existence.  And we do not just have to accept that the world with all its troubles is simply beyond redemption.  We simply have to want to be involved in the lives of others. How do we do that?  Parents have to care more about their kids' relationships with others (not to mention their own) than they do about making sure they're doing the right things.  We have to educate on how to use technology to collaborate, instead of to isolate.  We have to look harder for our heroes.  Let's face it--the one thing 9/11 taught Americans was who they really were.  In short, we all have to love ourselves and life and be obsessed about them less.
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No, but that may be based on the literal translation of the word "everything"!\n\nOne way to answer that is to look back over the last 10 years and see where have we been and how far have we gone.  \n\nTechnology is moving at a faster pace than all other areas.  However, it is not really moving that fast.  \n\nRich companies and rich leaders are getting richer because they have found a secret.  The secret is to let out a little new stuff every two to three years to cause mass buying of their product.  They leave some errors "BUG" in them so that people are not completely satisfied and must buy the update when it comes out.  The process keeps repeating itself over and over.  Why put out a great product if you can sell a good product several times within the next 10 years?!  No, we will not be that much farther a head in 10 years, but over time we will have computers will have evolved to do a lot more.  \n\nWe will have something like a computer/TV/radio/telephone/home security/home monitor/ whatever all built into one thinking computer!  How long it takes is up to the Rich guy in Washington State!  He did not become the riches guy in the world by being dumb!
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Oh my oh my - how we all forget our roots.\n\nThis is a long story that can either be super geeky or just consumer oriented.  \n\nThe short story is that the internet was developed by a combination of researchers, academics, business folk and free spirits during a period when governments were too absorbed in other issues to meddle with progress.  \n\nSee a few good sources below!
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They are not mutually exclusive, I send a e-mail every Christmas to my family you could say that is my tradition yet it is in the form of modern technology...I also can make my grandmas recipes in a microwave... so you see where I am going here. Traditions are rituals we do to feel connected to someone/thing.  You can speed these things up with modernizations though.
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I'm sorry, you'll never get a straight or a correct answer no matter what.\n\n\n"Huh? Why?!!"\n\nWell, let me put it in simple terms. We are predicting the future on current technology, either far overestimating where we'd be or quite the contrary.\n\nBack in the 60's, there were books out there and sci-fi films of what human civilization would have reached by the year 2000. No joke, they simply believed we'd be colonizing the moon by then, driving around hovercrafts and spaceships going in and out of earth like cars. As you can tell we are far far far from that.\n\nWhat if in the next 5 years we discovered something that would boost technology research rate by tenfold? That would surely mess up our calculations if I gave you one now.\n\nWhat if a massive war broke out in 15 years time between say China and the US? One that would devastate the world and make places inhabitable for the next millenia, setting things back to the stone age on certain parts of the world?\n\n\nI think you get the picture now =]
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Ummm...that is probably not going to find an intelligent answer in "Programming & Design".  Try re-posting this in say, "Society & Culture" and you may get an intelligent answer.
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No, I would not say that.\n\n"The development during the present century is characterized by two theoretical systems essentially independent of each other: the theory of relativity and the quantum theory. The two systems do not directly contradict each other; but they seem little adapted to fusion into one unified theory." \n- Albert Einstein, On Quantum Mechanics, 1940\n\nString theory is an attempt to reconcile both of these theories into one unifying theory.
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you can make an article on "science without conscience"by refering books \n"communication  reasearch and science media in europe" \nby"Alfredo Jose Schwarcz"
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Do an essay on how lanaguage is ever changing and how our lives (cultural, techonological) etc has affected this. For example, 20, or even 10 years ago, did anyone know what LOL meant?
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I was going to say the internet would be one of the choices, but I believe that was invented before 96(if your only going 10 years back). Therefore, the only thing invention I can think of that has been a cultural phenomenon is an iPod. The ability to carry thousands of songs on a tiny little ipod, instead of using a bulking CD player that only lets you have one cd at a time, is an amazing invention.
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I think so.  I think most of modern technology brings stress along with its benefits.  After all, it used to be you could get away from the telephone, the television, and the stereo: now you carry them with you.  I check my email several times a day; if it was only snail mail, once a day would be enough.  Things change faster, and even the rate of change is accelerating.  Remember Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" book?  I'd like to get a copy of that now, to see how accurate his predictions were.  It is my impression that the reality is even scarier than the predictions that scared me so bad when I was in college!
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Not anymore. It would have been several years ago, but once something becomes present technology, by definition, it is no longer futuristic.